'"The political situation in China is not particularly difficult to understand, if one will have the patience to grasp a few facts concerning the history, the size, the huge population, the traditions, the culture, the philosophy, and the pschology of China, and will have the wisdom not to attempt to follow the details of day-to-day developments, as reported concerning persons and places."

This view was expressed to a CRIMSON reporter by Dr. S. K. Hornbeck, former Lecturer on the History of the Far East, who has recently resigned from the University to take over the position of Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, in the Department of State at Washington. Chinese Government Personal

"Among other things it must be remembered that Chinese culture has its roots in ancient times," Dr. Hornbeck said, "and government in China has always been a matter of persons. Confucius laid down the fundamentals of human conduct in precepts for the relation between ruler and the subject, husband and wife, parent and child, senior and junior, friend and friend."

Continuing, he explained that until a century ago China knew nothing of international law of other states outside of and equal with the Chinese states. International law is a recent Occidental development.

Dr. Hornbeck said that "the Chinese state has been faced during the past century with problems absolutely new to it, and since 1911 has been trying to do something which it never tried to do before. The nationalist movement is a broader thing than the Nationalist Party, the Nationalist Government, or the Nationalist Army; the Nationalist movement is a nation-wide, though not yet nation-deep awakening; it is a movement away from the old and toward something new, toward hope, toward light, in politics, in economics, in social and religious activities, in the realm of arts and letters, and in the field of physical sciences."