The abolition of the Turkish capitulations is thought by some
people to have encouraged other Orientals to agitate for complete restoration of their sovereignty. It is becoming evident that they will never be satsified unless they can treat on really equal terms with the Western States. The time may now have come to decide whether we shall tempt China to militarize herself like Japan in order to win her complete equality of status, or whether we shall voluntarily concede it to her by agreement. We fear that the fact must be faced that until Chinese nationalism, which is certainly far more at the root of the present trouble than any local disturb- ance, is satisfied, she will always be the happy hunting- ground of Soviet agents who can point to the equality of status she already enjoys with regard to Russia.
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