1946: "China’s Major Industry" (Honolulu Advertiser Editorial)

In the April 20, 1946 edition of the Honolulu Advertiser an interesting editorial was published entitled ‘China’s Major Industry’ which reads as follows:

“A well-known Chinese war correspondent once confided to fellow correspondents that China is not likely to become a united nation within a hundred years. China, he pointed out, has been a war-torn country for a thousand years and more and civil war has long been a part of the nation’s diet even as rice. By that he meant that without civil war and proceeds thousands of Chinese would be without a livelihood. These wars between warlords and their followers are looked upon by the average national as one of the country’s major industries.

“The current battle in Manchuria between the Chungking Nationalist defenders against the so-called Communist army is but a part of the ancient internecine struggles of old Cathay. And as for this army labeled Communist, competent observers just come from China are frank in their praise for its competence as opposed to the of-times bungling inefficiency of Chungking warlords, -who, by the way, the United States has put its money on.”