_News of the Week
HE Government are deeply concerned about the grave turn of events in China. They could have no more Tficult problem upon their hands. The conferences t Peking, though they failed because there was no rernment with any authority left in China, were a 1sitive proof of the benevolent attitude of the Powers wards China. All were ready to modify the Treaties. he Powers plainly have no wish to apply any old- shioned coercive policy. If they did wish. that they ould have to take sides under arms with one or more f the rival factions against the others. Public opinion ere, however, simply would not sanction such a policy hich might lead us into an interminable foreign war. he memory of the loss and the humiliation incurred hen we tried to help the Whites against the Reds in ussia is too fresh for it to be possible to repeat such -periments.
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