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 rior to Japanese constables. A sufficient number is all that is required—half a million for the whole country would guarantee peace and security and largely banish the present unrest.

If we are to ensure a happy morrow for the Chinese, all the things which we have touched upon must be considered as one organic whole—to be handled with the idealism and the practical common-sense which have given the name of Woodrow Wilson such prestige and puissance. In a word, the problem of Peking should be made the problem of Europe and America, it should be treated as an intimate and not as an insoluble matter, since it has directly grown out of the superior strength in peace and war of the Western man and urgently demands not his enmity but his sympathy and help.