Sliver is. no subject for jest at the Jmoment, Yet it is dificult to observe the comedy of certain interchanges between Shanghai and Washington without a wry smile of amused bewilderment. "Shanghai rumour," says Washington. If Mr. Hoover, with his intimate knowledge of China were stil at White House, the vernocular term "'bunder" might have found itself on the dancing cables. Shang-hal apparently has attempted to woo Mr. Morgenthau with the sweet reasonableness of inquiring innocence, Mr. Morgenthau is not very old; but he is old enough to see traps even when set by ingenious jugglers with words. The dialogue is curious, preserves a remarkable unity of form Walle being plentifully endowed with personalities. The speakers seem entrancingly coy. 'They shrug their shoulders, nod, and make noises off, but they' cannot be pinned down the dialogue assigned to them. The comedy appears therefore io be under-rehearsed, and the dramatist, once more, is a victim of a ca
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