May 25.
Mr. Hugene Chen's answer to} Mr. Newton's stinging letter on his departure from Hankow good specimen of the art diplomacy. "Never apologize and never retract," is said to have been the advice of a former exponent of that gentle art of camouflaging the real issue at stake in a controversy with a cloud of words; a tale told by a diplomat, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It isan old Chinese trick known as "Chih niu wei ma"—pointing to an ox and saying that it is a horse, The speaker and listener both know well that the ox is not a horse and that the reply is merely the retort courteous and means:" "All right, but what are you going to do about it?" Mr. Chen admits that failure of the Nationalist Government at Hankow to function; none knows better ox is more bitterly disappointed at the collapse of the! communistic theories of govern-_ ment than he, but what can one do? The Nationalists were
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