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The Open Door in China

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 2, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 40.

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The Open Door in China

A WRITER in Harper’s Weekly, September 22, says, of the assurances of the “Open Door” “demanded” and secured by the United States from the Powers, in China: “Who on earth is so simple as to suppose that such assurances are worth the paper they are written on, so soon as their provisions clash with the interests of a powerful nation?” And this for the reason that “between nations as often as between individuals, ‘might is right.’” To be sure! How could it be otherwise, when nations are composed only of individuals?