Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficult to see how the author, brought up in the critical and liberal atmosphere of Harvard, could have chosen, through such apparent implications, to indict the Chinese as a people in this insolent and irresponsible manner. That the army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given...