The Chinese Government 1s tor-ruinate in securing so eminent and distinguished an international gute fo take the portfolio of Foreign Affairs which General Chang Chum has relinquished to become Sceretary-General of the Central Political Council Dr. Wang Chung-hui's vast experience "and mature judgment will be of enormous assistance the Government and may be peeled appropriately. to develop the new feeling of confidence and stabilily which the administration earning. Of the retiring Foreign Minister it is possible to write with areal sense of gratitude. General Chany "Chun "is "not unknown to Shanghai but his handling of For-ign Affairs has been marked by Special qualities of quiet dignity and restraint which have commended him to the public and won the confidence oot his colleagues. To his credit Will be remembered the cannes and unflurried dignity with which he met the diteult days of the middle of 1935 and not Inst of all the success attending, rts to bring japanese relations. into of rescuable direussion, tean best be judged fro circumstance that, on handing hig office to successor, Chun is too modest risible to ima that this turn of events found. trons rein= forcement in his capable rasp of his refusal to be driv to extremes in either direction.
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