PROSPECTS IN CHINA
_ 1® one thlng achieve military unification, it is another to maintain it. General Chiang Kai-Shek has persuaded many educated Chinese that the first requirements of the nation are a strong army and a new political consciousness. The army ^ strong enough for internal purposes, while the political consciousness is being stimulated hy all the arts of psychological manipulation on the most approved models. While the aims find increasing approval the methods are distrusted. Meanwhile it becomes more and more difficult for General Chiang to maintain the enthusiasm of the educated for a military system which is not used against the external enemy and to win the loyalty of a peasantry conspicuously lacking in political consciousness while land taxes are so onerous. More important still, the goose that lays the golden egg, the peasantry, is already threeparts dead. Unless something is done qdickly to arrest the process of rural decay it is difficult o see how China ean remain a secondary Fascist State, let a(one develop into a first- class democratiq Power, —G. E. Taylor, in tjie Manchester Guardian.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 4
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