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This is my proposition: While I fully sympathize with your nationwide desire to keep out of the war, I cannot help thinking that mere negative pacifism without being backed by a constructive peace policy is never sufficient to guarantee to you the peace you so dearly desire. What China expects of America—indeed what the whole civilized world expects of America—is an active and positive leadership for international peace and justice, a leadership to prevent wars, to call a halt to aggressions, to plan and cooperate with the democracies of the world to bring about collective security, and to make this world at least safe for humanity to live in.
Chapter Note: The China Weekly Review, 86, September 24, 1938.
Address delivered over the Columbia Broadcasting Network in New York on June 24, 1938. Also in Amerasia II, no. 6 (August 1938), 293–295.
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Chou, CP. (2013). What Can America Do in the Far East Situation. In: Chou, CP. (eds) English Writings of Hu Shih. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33164-0_12
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