Diplomatic circles reflect these past few days the conviction that Tsao Kun is going.to be elected, that his organization will begin to crumble the day he arrives in Peking and that he will not outlast the Spring. Like Marshal Tuan, the diplomats seem to be resigned to this development, for the same good reasons that a little action of any sort yields more promise than stagnation in stale mate and because Tsao Kun, as responsible military chief of the North, will, as President, furnish tr? conspicuous target at short Range.
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