Continued: "Everybody Knows it But Us".

epitome of the new order which has been on the way for 2,000 years.

"tn the United States we have a eee werkt WO new foundations, with
human freedom as a basis. Nelson Trusler Johnson, who has spent thirty-four
years in the China service of the state department and has just relinquished his
post as United States ambassador to Chung-king, thus sums up his analysis of the
struggles in the East and the West.

"Fascism is a revival of ancient despotism, making its last stand against
the new order," he continues. "In the United States we have given expression to
the spirit of human liberty, end we have found that industry, progress and better
living goes along with this. In the history of the earth, human beings never have
achieved so much in so short q time. :

"Our new found belief in man's ability to govern himself is opposed to the
belief of the Nazis that man is the victim of environment, circumstances, with his
life in the hands of en angry God, and all he can do is to get on his knees and
placate that God through some high priest--Mr. Hitler.

"Bssential in the struggle between China and Japan is the cause of the
old oriental order which Japan champions, and oe which we have given to the
ouvte and of which China was rapidly becoming the champion. Japan is trying to in-
pose its ancient Wang Tao (the kingly way) on China."

Real Democrats in China.

Mr. Johnson pointed out that most of the Chinese who are prominent in
government, industry and science got their ideas from the United States, and many
of them were educated here. ‘The Chinese people, he added, "are essentially in-
dividuals, in one sense the most democratic people in the world. They are the only
oriental people who have shown a deep interest in democratic government."

The ambassador compared the vitality of American civilization to China's

age-old culture,