CHINA: Fellow Students

CHINA Fellow Students

Said China's urbane and distinguished scholar, Dr. Hu Shih, once Ambassador to the U.S. and now a delegate to Nanking's National Assembly: "We're only schoolboys in democratic politics. We're now in the classroom trying to learn."

But if the Assembly was unruly as a country schoolhouse last week, its very disorder cheered those skeptics who had feared that delegates from the powerful Kuomintang would act as whips and bosses rather than fellow students. Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek urged the people to safeguard their own rights, become their own tutors, Chiang...

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