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'THY American community has been advised from various sour-ices that there is about to be a [conjunction here of three Senatorial luminaries of no little importance. From Manila is coming a Senator Wheeler, who is said to be closely associated with Senator Borah. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, supposed to have much influence in the White House, is shortly due ito arrive from Peking; and there is also a Senator Goff, a Republican from West Virginia, due here from Tokyo.
In our dark moments, when our Governments have seemed jeynically indifferent to our troubles or sadly misled as to their nature, we have all _expressed the hope' that we could' some day get select delegations from London or Washington and put them in intimate touch with what Mr. Eugene Chen calls "the realities of the situation." There be no doubt that our Ameri-n friends, representing alli viewpoints, are at this moment sharpening their hortatory axes for an encounter with the Senators. The latter will certainly; get what their less dignified compatriots would call an "'earfal" before they escape from this city, weary and bewildered. We must all hope sincerely that when they have got safely away and have sorted out their con-fioting evidence and contradictory impressions, have tabulated their appraisements of the sob-[bing sentimentalists and the ealcused "die-hard," they will carry' back with them a more Jaccurate picture of the real problems before China than seems to be current across the Pacific. hopes are inevitably pinned upon such personal visits by influential men and we cannot have too many of them, bejeause they come of a class that may be ready enough to deal in public with fantasies but is not accustomed to being deceived at heart by persiflage nor by political hocus-poons; but we know from bitter experience that the clearest and boldest. testimony from men of this type will weigh as nothing with American public opinion against the ardently told fairy tales of a foreignized Chinese student or the authoritative statement of the head of a Mission Board. This is not meant in any degree to detract from the welcome which this international community will undoubtedly extend 4o the Amer-jean Senators nor to minimize ithe importance of educating 2 [Senator up to an understanding of the fundamental causes of [China's hurly-burly, but our enthusiasm for this pious work flags a little when Church journals from Great Britain and America reach us and reveal the! fact that Mission Boards, supposely in the Closest" communication with hundreds of misunderstanding, are still t9.confirm all. protestant Church-
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