PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1927, Page 1

PUBLIC OPINION.

FOR ONE’S COUNTRY. “The man who dies for his country does indeed render the supreme patriotic service, hill it is not the only service that can he rendered to the country, and I suggest to you that those who endeavour to place the whole plane of national life oil a higher level and at a higher standard are doing a service as patriotic, viewed from the highest standpoint, as anv ol those engaged in military or similar services.” —Sir Herbert Samuel.

THE BRITISH AND THE CHINESE. “The people of China and the people of Hritain. the everyday people, have for each other a profound respect and a deep ineradicable sympathy. Existing points of contact between them are at present inadequate. Once fno people of Britain determine to develop this deep underlying reipout and sympathy into genuine interest in Chinn, all this will lie changed. Like a swollen river bursting its hanks and finding new channels lor its waters, the British people will find new ways of contact with the Chinese people. Business men, educationists, artistic and literary folk will determine to know more about the real ( liina, and. being determined. t.(iey will find ncu ways, business men will lint rest content with existing channels and methods of trade between the two countries; educationists will seek to know the secret of China’s monumental educational achievements in Hie past; and literary folk, banning for ever the facile device which ekes out a poolplot by the spice of mandarin mystery will seek to know and write about the true human nature and human culture of the Chinese people.”—Afr R. O. Hall in his new book “China and Hritain.”