The Archive · 1935

150th YEAR OF CHINA'S 'TRADE WITH AMERICA

How the Two Countries Can Help Each Other: Open Door Policy is Advantageous atniosphere befiting the occassie, about two hundred persons Sat down to dinner on Tuesday night, Nov. 19, at the Ameri~ can Club in celebration of the 380th anniversary of the opening trade between China and America The joint hosts of the evening were the Chinese-American Trade Council and the American Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Chang Kia-ngan, President of the former and, Mr. Cornell "Franklin, President of the latter were the presiding hosts.

The Chinese and American flags: Graped by the side of a picture of Dr. Sun Yat-sen made an appropriate background to the speakers' table Around the walls were hung prints of clippers of early days, which bore the first fruits of trade between America and Chins

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