ELOQUENCE OF CHEN
BRITAIN'S WRONG HORSE
PEKIN, 7th January. Eugene Chen, in a speech to Chinese and foreigners, commenting on Sir Austen Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham, said that he was afraid there was a common misapprehension in each pronouncement lately made on the present situation in China of the great secular principle which was working out towards an independent modern State in China. "It is the principle of freedom, liberty, and independence," said Chen. "In its internal aspect this principle is manifested in the Nationalist movement against Chinese feudalism, in the double form of tho mandarinate which misrules at Pekin, and the decaying militarism which sustains the bandit power of Chang-Tso-lin and his fellowfreebooters.
"Externally ' the same principle is expressing itself in the Nationalist struggle with foreign imperialism, especially in the specific phase of the struggle concurrently known as the anti-British movement. An incomplete grasp of this principle leads the Powers concerned to a conclusion which is
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1927, Page 9
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