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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22784, 7 January 1944, Page 4

"Chip® has become democratic. Her fuedal age is behind her. She has no territorial ambitions except to secure the return of Manchukuo. She depends not on military might but on moral force to influence the world,” writes Dr. H. R. Williamson in his book China. Among the Nations. "All this should make her an ideal member of future round table conferences. For there, standing four-spuare against international injustice and unworthy and uncompromising attitudes, she will be found conciliatory, reasonable and helpful in unravelling knotty questions of international relationships. Ready to receive, she will be willing to give: making light demands of others she will impose the heaviest demands upon herself. Her population of 460,000,000, representing a quarter of the whole human race, retains the idealism and mental flexibility of her long ancestry. She is proud. legitimately so, of her long civilisation. But she Is ready to learn from others, and adapt herself accordingly. China, ancient—but rejuvenated. cultured and considerate, should, if we give her unstintedly the help of which she stands in such dire need, enable us to preserve the best elements In our two civilisations, and so ensure the creation of a truly civiJUeC world.”