(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930) 1 4 London, May 4. [Bose who remember the China Society of five or six years, ago kept metaphorically pinching themselves at Claridge's last night.
We used to meet for tea in a cellar in Finsbury Circus, where we partook of school-treat cake and moist bread and. butter; after which, scattered forlornly over the circular benches of the School of Oriental Studies (which strikingly resembled a surgival theatre in a hospital) we listened to treatises on the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty, the rock-carvings of Honan, or the selationship of homo Pekinensis to the Flowery Miao.
Last night we were fairly to be called a brilliant assembly. As the Chinese Ambassador said, we included-"diktinguished representatives of Parliament, Government, the Services, the Church, the Universities, the Courts, Ans and Sciences, Finance and Commerce, Journalism and Diplomacy." The dinner was unexceptional, the dresses charming, not least some of those worn by the Chinese ladies present, and the speeches were some of the best one has heard for a long time. Lord Chatfeld's, was so good, specially striking from one in his position.
After him Lord Snell proposed, and Prof. Adams, Warden of all Souls, Oxford, replied for the China Society, in similar terms, so to speak, in fact very attractively, and a thoroughly pleasant evening ended. thought would very often check the harsh word and the hasty action that though so soon forgotten by the ker can have the most devastate
ut perhaps the quality that we ana far-reaching effects." admire most and that we should do well to profit by is the Chinese respect for the old and the wise and for the. things that are gained by experience and living, rather than the spectacular things that are so easily come by and so ephemeral. We admire an ancient civilization just as we do an old tree and an old garden, an old cathedral or an old piece of furniture—seeing in them a quality which they have gained by standing in the world for a great many years; a quality which with all our artfulness we cannot succeed in manufacturing.
Lord Chatfield's Address British Sympathy for China Lord Chatfield's speech, which is equally noticeable for its wit and its feeling, follows:—Mr. Quo has had a distinguished diplomatic career. He was educated at Pennsylvania University where, in addition to his other academic triumphs, one can assume that he took an honour's degree in oratory. and elocution. He attended the Versailles Conference in 1919 as a technical expert. Since China did not, however, accept the treaty Mr. Quo can be absolved from any responsibility for the odium that now attaches to the results of that as-
But we meet tonight to. condole rather than to mourn, because we believe that just as the man who has wrestled with and dealt with the trials, which he knows must come to him as a process in his experience and evolution, will be stronger for having overcome them, so China will come through her struggle with new experience and new courage to add to the stêre she has made through so many centuries.
I hope that the thine will not be too distant when this fratricidal strife will cease between the nations sembly.
Mr. Quo has held many important posts in China and abroad and in 1935 he was appointed Ambassador to this country, where he and Mme Quo have endeared themselves by the modesty and charm of their personalities. He at the same time has established a reputation as a polished and witty public speaker.
Among Mr. Quo's diplomatic experiences was his participation, under the chairmanship of Sir Miles Lampson, in the Sino-Japanese peace conference at Shanghai in 1932. The Japanese civil representative, curiously enough, was Mr. Shigemitsu who is now also in London as Japanese Ambassador. Both the Chinese and "7 Japanese delegates had to sign the resulting peace treaty in hospital. Mr. Quo had been attacked by Chinese opponents of the agreement and Mr. Shigemitsu was seriously injured a few days previously in a bomb outrage by a Korean fanatic. So diplomacy has its dangers no less than war.
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