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DR. STUART ANALYZES UPHEAVALS IN CHINA

WOULD HAVE JOINT STUDY BY STUDENTS HERE AND IN PEKIN

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Analyzing the upheavals in China as the inevitable result of the awakening of a national consciousness among the young Chinese, and an effort to throw off feudal bonds, Dr.J. Leighton Stuart, president of Yenching University, said before the Liberal Club last Saturday that the only hope for China was a preservation among the students of a confidence in the possibility of ultimate deliverence of their nation.

Dr. Stuart came to Cambridge for a conference with President Lowell on the formation of an Institute of Chinese Relations, and organization which would have as its purpose a study of Chinese problems by graduate students in Cambridge and Pekin.

The gradual chrystallization by education of an intelligent public opinion among the young Chinese was declared by Dr. Stuart to be the most effective way in which foreign nations could aid the Chinese. Dr. Stuart, who discredits methods of international interference in Chinese problems, says that the solution must come from within.

"Some American business men", continued Dr. Stuart, "foolishly urge upon the American government armed intervention in China. If armed interference were attempted by any nation, the students would at once lead a popular uprising. The one thing that has no force in China today is force."

Dr. Stuart finds nothing in the Chinese revolution that is not reasonable, for he says that a passionate nationalism is struggling to throw off the selfish rule of warlords, and that the important thing is to help Young China to keep faith in itself.

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