Mr. Hsu Yuan was Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai during the periods of Ho Feng-lin, Chi Usieh-yuan=and Sun Chuan-f His appointment to the Treaty Revision Commission has raised the question whether an official, no matter how worthy, of the' old regime can be given office under the Kuomintang. When it is realized that almost all the present cabinet officers of the Nationalist. Government were erstwhile Northern offi-inks, the contention that such offcials' should not be appointed. to secondary positions is not altogether logical, ince of an element in the Kuomin tang upon the "small Kuomintan that is that those who have not been with the Parly since the 1924 reorganization should not be given high office in the Government. There is special hostility Tt was recently reported that Dr. Wang intended to appoint a Shang-hal merchant to the post of Com: missioner of Foreign Affairs a Jand that evoked another storm opposition, so that the appoints en was not made,
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