The conclusion of Mr. Rodney Gil-bort's article today on Chi policy and ite effect in foreign Cocrtitce contains an important piece of information. After commenting on the vacillation of the British Foreign Office and the man-rer in which it has been pulled opposite directions by continually interests, he mys that tions im Peking generally are convinced that Mr. Miles Lampson_ is being sent out here less as Minister to China than as an Viver to the British Fore'gn Office There is no que-tion of an "of-nothing of an aggressive character in view, but simply of framing " consistent policy and of etickine to it-and it is to be Mr.
Lampon's job to ressmmend what that policy shall be. The chief apparent trouble in Downing Street for the past year and a half nas been that the Foreign Secretary knows little about China sed in the tremendous complexity of his duties, it cannot be surprising if he leaves the affairs of thio part of the world Tangely in other hands. That is where the man en the spot is of peculiar importance and if Legution Quarter is correct in its surmise of Mr. Lampson's duties, the matter could havelly be in better bands
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