America’s Share in the Partition of China
In the North American Review for August, Demetrius C. Boulgar, one of the best-informed men in the world on the far East and its political problems, publishes a deeply thoughtful article on “America’s Share in the Partition of China.” He says that the United States took the “lead in the process of arranging the Chinese question;” and that now it “can not back out of the whole business because events have moved with unexpected celerity, or because dark clouds appear on the political horizon. They must see the game out, whether it has to be played on the green cloth of diplomacy or the ‘ensanguined field of Mars.’” He regards it so certain that in the partition of China the United States will take territory, that the only question remaining is what part she will take; and says that “she can refuse her co-operation, only by taking a lower seat in the family of nations.”