China has much cause -for mourning the loss of Sadao Sa-buri, He understood the Chinese as did few Japanese, because he sympathized with their difficulties and because he was so patient, more patient even than the Chinese themselves with their own shortcomings. He always wanted to give China every opportunity and he was pained that some Chinese misunder stood his country so completel Saburi would have engendered a calmer atmosphere in the Pact~ fie; he would have created a will to friendship between the two nations. Petty politicians in China who are using anti-Japanism to strengthen then:- selves politically - would hava become the puny things of clay that thay really are before a panese and western women. The two men loved each other; their friendship transcended racial and national differences. Both are gone from China, one by death; the other by resignation China's old, tried, true friends grow fewer. The new ones create a glamour, but i substance in these new friend. ships?
The Kyoto Conference Again Mr. L. T. Chen's criticism of my notes on the Chinese delegation to the Kyoto Conference which he included in his. letter to the editor of the "North China Daily News," published on Tuesday, must be taken more as a smug apology than asa serious statement of fact.
At_ the Honolula Conference, the Chinese delegation dominated all others. Dr. David Yui was the outstanding personality of the Conference. He developed such 'a keen interest in Chinese affairs that many of the delegates took a new view of the Far Eastern situation. From all that could bbe gleaned from foreign delegates to the Kyoto. Conference who! have, during the past few weeks been visiting Shanghai, the Chinese delegation there did not compare at all with their predecessors of two years ago. Either the situation in China or} the personnel of the delegation had something to do with lessening the enthusiasm for China's} cause. Perhaps it was the beauty of Kyoto, the climate or anything else. Mr. Chen refuses to permit us to believe that it was the delegation, Now, as regards facts: Mr, Chen would involve me in aa invidious comparison of personalities, This is quite impossi Yet, among the names he mentions, who except Dr. Chang Poding is an international figure? Who among the Chinese deles tion compared in ability, scholarship and_ international ' prestige with the British, American, Cana-ian, Japanese and Australian delegations? Who. among them has the prestige in his own country that the members these other delegations enjoy in theirs?
He takes me to task for saying that Mr. Matsuoka sent his address to the Chinese delegation two days before its delivery, but} admits that it was sent to Dr. Hsu. Was not Dr. Hsu a member of the Chinese delegation? Was he not, in fact, the specially designated delegate in charge of the Manchurian question? mally, the element of time: The meeting in Manchuria took place during the summer months of this year. Was that not three or four months before the Conference met? Was. that ample time for preparation If Mr. Chen is satisfied with the results of- the Conference, then China is, most unfortunate, for he is too €asily pleased. suggestions were not, made with a view fo attacking any person any institution. They were made with the hope of definitely calling
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