After dinner oratory especially of the complimentary "type is "not distinguished, except, per-sample of "the' best But many readers besides ins must have been impress-fed by the grave and admirably worded speeches of Mr. C. Il. French and-Judge Franklin at the dinner given to Mr. MacMurray on Monday evening. As Mr, French well said, the duty of a patriotic American' is to promote his country welfare and this, if his lot be cast, in China, he cannot do without equally studying her welfare, since the needs of China and America are reciprocal. Who then best sought to serve China's interest "in that evil hour when the sinister shadow the stone and substtuite a forgery.
Soviet Russia fell athwart China" But the attempt was fortunately dis-—Amerizan officials and the Ameri-covered by the Chinese authorities can Chamber of Commerce? Or and the stone is now carefully that "extraordinary minority guarded, we believe in Sianfu itself.
'American journalists -and_politico-'The theories for the total disap-missionary bodies who sought, by Pearance of the Nestorians set out every means in their power to' prely by our correspondent are vent the truth from being known lly only theories, but they in-America? " Efforts were made to are forcibly argued. "It would be unset Mr. MacMurray, pressure welcome to hear from others who was successfully exerted to stop may be able to speak on the subject publication" from Washington of with authority. offciat reposts on the Nanking outrage and when the American Chars-ber of Commerce published x leaflet Out of the Limelight jin the United States containing a 'A telegram from Peking in to-few truths of the condition of day's paper said that a Supreme China, it drew down upon its head meeting, at Marshal Chang storm of abuse and from Nanking headquarters, had decided sharp rebuke and formal protest. to appoint Marshal Chang Chung-JAs Mr. French truly remaried:—chang as Tupan of Chihli in addi-they, (the pro-Bolshe may we find true art, -serious purpose, profound thinking and a steady determination to convince the public of its smallness and frivolity. In England we hav a deplorable preference for conventional types; we "dearly love we are happier, thea tically, among dukes' than dustman; and we insist on appy endings, Much as we grumble we are, as a race, incurable optimists at heart. We: prefer the "story which ends with.a tion to his present post of. Tupan of Shantung; he Is to stay in Tien tsin for the time being. It was farther decided to put Marshal Ts marriage as the guaranteed seal of living happy ever after, to lone which puts the marriage first as the source of all woes. JAnd the reassertion of these natural, national. preferences as reflected on the stage is surely yet another sign that England jooming to her own again. ceed in thee-campatan Borodin Ca, bad swept the Yangtse Valley with his orgy of merdgy, rape, arson, looting, torture, and. vot Sur home rovernmment and that of thet ionals still professed to believe that wea merely a phos of China's ional etrapgle to at That is perhaps the most amazing, feature of that amazing epoch—that, the Western Powers can have been blind to realities. For no one now who possesses a spark of honesty would dispute the truth of what Mr. French also said:
"That. in "the light of, subsequs events td" upon the evidence ofa thetic Sole docamosts tne greater. peril the' Caimace "in Certaiply the Nationalists' and Chinese public generally would not [dispute it. Nor, by corollary, could [they dispute that the worst possible method of gratifying China's natural ambitions was to give way to those who so nearly brought. her to ruin a year ago. That has been the consistent attitude of the-Bri community of Shanghai, grossly as it was traduced abroad as mere obstinate die-hardism,. The- ample corroboration of the British position thus given in speeches which we know well represent the overwhelming majority of the American community is very welcome. Hapily we may believe that the peculiar perils of last year have gone, But the unanimity of the British and Americans on matters s0 closely affecting China's welfare with their own is factor of the highest importance, which will not, twe hope, be overlooked abroad.
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