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What we should like to hear is for one of our statesmen, preferably the highest ... to enunciate a program of just one word, but that word total, entire and all-embracive. The word is "FREEDOM...
...this land of great ghosts, the Chinese Government today looks for more than antiquities. The fact of reintegration means much to Chinese pride, calling to mind the greatest days of China's history. It gives China what China's greatest statesmen have always sought-a vast natural buffer zone between her own centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north...
Most important of all, Sinkiang presents new statesmen in China with the problem their predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
...dynamic, nationalist China and powerful, victorious Russia are different quantities. In the heart of Asia these two powers must live side-by-side, sharing the rich resources, promoting a common trade, developing common irrigation, and controlling undisciplined nomadic tribes. Only mature and wise statesmen can solve such problems...
Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...