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[[strikethrough]] The Republic of China would crumble tomorrow if its women were denied the essential part which they have in keeping it alive. China depends upon its women -- not merely for their work (in common with the women of the rest of the world) in rearing and educating children. This, by any thoughtful person, is taken for granted. For if the heart of a nation is to be found in its homes, the heart of every home is to be found in its mother. [[/strikethrough]] I speak here of a more active role. 
    
Every profession in China is well-represented by women-members. There are 1000's of doctors, lawyers, teachers, and social workers. [[strikethrough]] Again, you have only to read your American newspapers to learn the names of Chines women who today are capably filling responsible governmental positions. [[/strikethrough]] And in this desperate time of China's efforts to defend her national life, the women of China can be found, even, on the battle fields [[strikethrough]] of battle [[strikethrough]] Some of these women hold the military rank of Captain. A few of them are no less than Colonels in the Chinese Army. [[strikethrough]] These are some of the details in the real picture of Chinese womanhood. [[/strikethrough]]

[[strikethrough]] In the invasion China now suffers, who are they but its women, to they [[/strikethrough]] Some become nurses and care for the mutilated and the wounded [[strikethrough]] ? And, as you may guess upon learning the truly noble place of womanhood in my country, it is these same women who [[/strikethrough]] and [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] the others train and educate the peasants in their duty of defending their country. Theirs is a patriotism that could not exist if, in reality, they were the down-trodden creatures that popular history once made them out to be.

[[strikethrough]] But the women of China are indispensable, above all, in the labors of relief-work, caused by the present unjust invasion. Take the Chinese woman from the bedside of China's bombed civilians; take her from her post behind the bread-lines in stricken areas; take her from her care of the multitude of Chinese orphans; take her, in short, from all the rehabilitation-activities in our once-peaceful, but now bloody country: - [[/strikethrough]]