At the garden party given by Dr.
Kung in his "honour, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross took refuge in the familiar contention that the British Civil Servant is dumb, The Navy also prides itself on being the silent service, although why soldiers and airmen are thus implicitly leged to be free from the trammels traditionally imposed on servants. of the Government is not altogether clear, The fact remains that when these silent folk are compelled bY the exigencies of modern conditions to get upon their fect, they trequently prove that the art of oratory is not unknown to them. The advance of democratic institutions in various arts of the British Empire has laid upon perfectly good bureaucrats the obligation of taking part in the hurly-burly of political discussion, It has been a delightfully entrancing spectacle to behold the ease and skill in debate which eventually become theirs. No doubl, as Dr. C. 7. Wang pointed out to Sir Frederick, speech still remains on the silver standard, but golden maxims have their merit and they may be as appropriately enshrined. in the demure utterances of the trained bureaucrat og in' the more volatile emotions of the politician.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.