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"The solution of the Kiaochou Controversy is an honorable, open, 

 and above board rectification of China's frontiers. China to regain 

 complete possession of all leases, etc., hampering her sovereignty over 

 China proper, in return for which China shall recognize Japan's 

 sovereignty over those parts of Manchuria necessary for a true 

 frontier line, pay a fair price for the German public properties 

 captured by Japan, and co-operate with British plans for the develop- 

 ment of orderly modern government in Thibet." 



That is Mr. Gallagher's solution. We wonder whether this is an 

 inspired suggestion. Would Japan clear out wholly from Shantung? 

 We do not think that she has any moral right whatever to the retention 

 of Shantung ; and it is the greatest blot of the Paris Conference 

 for it to have acceded to the secret documents, wrung from China 

 in the hour of weakness and the perils of war. This is to grant 

 as a right in the East what was wrong in the West, and to act 

 without a particle of principle. Documents are surely no more than 

 scraps of paper when they are not based on justice but on diplomatic 

 chicanery and the wielding of force over a prostrate body. There 

 is no law in the world that recognizes the right of bandits. Why 

 should it be introduced into politics ! Mr. Lloyd George's position 

 is illogical and unworthy. Indeed the Japanese representatives could 

 well remain calm and smiling when they possessed such documents as 

 they did. The fundamental question is whether the Paris Conference 

 should not have reconsidered the value of these. At any rate they 

 should not have bartered away the property and rights of another 

 in settling their own affairs. 



Mr. Gallagher repeats the baseless and exploded charges against 

 missionaries in Korea, and shows an animus which is regrettable ; the 

 statements and insinuations made can be shown to be incorrect, but 

 this review is not the place. In our opinion Chapters 5, 39 and 40 are 

 quite unworthy of such a brilliant writer ; we do not see that they 

 can serve any good purpose, while they expose a superficiality and 

 a prejudice which mar the book. It is mere twaddle to talk about 

 "the rights of one nation to force its own religious beliefs down 

 the willing throat of another nation." We do not believe that any 

 nation is attempting to do any such thing, and it is absolutely 

 untrue to imply that Christian missionaries are doing so. The carica- 

 ture given of "Modern Christianity" will be accorded its real value 

 when it is remembered that the writer says that he has been taught 

 that "The Bible is- the way and the life," and that he attributes 

 to Paul one of the most famous sayings of Jesus, thus showing 

 that he is by no means a safe guide when he ventures to express 

 himself on Christianity. 



