With able negotiators who are also persona grata to the leaders of the South-west in Hongkong to. discuss the differences which have stood in the way of complete agreement between Nanking and Canton, there seems ample justifeation for the optimism felt in official circles over the prospects of national unity in fact as well as in name. It may be doubted, however, whether even the skill and fact of Mr. Sun Fo. and Dr. Wang Chung.hui will be enough to bring Mr. Hu Hanmin back into the eiccle of cordiality. Mr. Hu's unfortunate experience at Tangshan Hot Springs while under the cloud of disapproval by General Chiang, Kalshek may be still too recent for firn 's forget its rankle. Mr. Hu can be as uncompromising in opees: tion as he has at times, been "ardent. in support
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