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"The problems of the Pacific are to my mind the world problems / of the next fifty years or more. In these problems we are, as / an Empire, very vitally interested. Three of the dominions / border on the Pacific; India is next door; there, too, are / the United States and Japan. There, also, in China the fate / of the greatest human population on earth will have to be / decided. There Europe, Asia and America are meeting, and / there, I believe, the next great chapter in human history / will be enacted. I ask myself, what will be the character of / that history? Will it be along the old lines? Will it be the / old spirit of national and imperial domination which has been / the undoing of Europe? Or shall we have learned our lesson? / Shall we have purged our souls in the fires through which we / have passed? Will it be a future of peaceful co-operation, of / friendly co-ordination of all the vast interests at stake? / Shall we act in continuous friendly consultation in the true / spirit of a society of nations? "-GENERAL SMUTS.
Last year I went down the China coast twice from Shanghai to Hong Kong, and it is a most interesting trip, especially if you stop at the ports and see their multitudinous activities. Their variety is most striking: no two are alike, and even the sails are different in every port down the coast.