By Rodney Gilbert, Mr. Tang Shao-yi ig so well known in China to everyone who is sufficiently interested in Chinese affairs to read of an interview with him that it would be a waste of effort to describe him. It will suffice to say that he looks exceedingly well and declares that he feels as well as he looks. He explains his present blooming appearance and apparent good health by the fact that he is again in Kuangtung, ''which after all is home as no other part of China is home to us Cantonese," he says.
A foreigner who accompanied me on my visit to Mr. Tang, and who had never met him before, said as we were' going Gut—to begin at the tail end of the interview—There is the biggest brain and the most charming personality that I have encountered in China." This is not the first time that Mr. Tang Shao-yi has made such an impression, nor will it be the last. A talk with him, like talk with Dr. Sun Yat-sen is never a waste of time, but there is a difference in the impression which these two remarkable men make upon the visitor. The man who calls upon Dr. Sun goes away convinced that Sun Yat-sen believes in himself; while the man who talks with Mr. Tang Shao-yi goes away believing what Mr, Tang has told him. 2
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