Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Chinese Government ; but after theirrescue,—no state of war existing between thepeople and government of the United States andthose of China,—it remained to plan for thewithdrawal of our troops as soon as prudenceand common sense might justify such a step, andthen to negotiate with tlie Imperial Governmentof China for a reasonable indemnity and guaran-tees of future good behavior. Our Governmentwas ready enough, therefore, when a month agoRussia proposed the withdrawal of troops fromPeking, to express approval of tliat plan, pro-vided it could be generally agreed to. Ger-many was not ready, liowever, to withdraw, andEngland seemed to be deeply suspicious of Rus-sias good faith iii nuiking the suggestion. TheGerman Government. insisted, as a preliminarycondition, tliat those persons high in authoritywlio were guilty of tlie assassination of VonKetteler, the German Minister, and of other out-rages against foreigners, sliould be delivered 404 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REJ/IEIV OF REVIEWS.
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From the Illustrated London Kc-ms. A TYPICAL, BOXER. over by the Chinese to the allied forces for con-dign punishment. Even if this were otherwisereasonable or possible, a moments thought willshow that this demand implies that the guiltypersons are well known, and can be surren-dered for punishment v/ithout any judicial inves-tigation as to their innocence or guilt. , , „ . , The futility of this German position As to ruyiish ingthe is almost as great as that of the in-Chmese. ^^iiiie British jingoes, like RudyardKipling, who would like to punish, as guilty ofhigh treason, e^^rybody in South Africa whoshowed active sympathy with the Boer cause.Millions of people in China had been stirred tosomething like a frenzy of patriotic opposition toforeigners by the circulation among them, in vasteditions, of numerous anti-foreign papers andbooks making all sorts of charges against theEuropeans, some of which were true and manyof which were false. It is a notorious fact thatthe European power

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