Show HAYS BRILLIANT STROKE I was a brilliant stroke of diplomacy says Mark B Dunncll in the August Atlantic lantic to seek an International guarantee guar-antee of equal rights In China at a time when owIng to recent avowals of liberal lib-eral intention the powers could not well refuse without blazoning their Insincerity In-sincerity A possibly temporary policy of equal rights has been made permanent perma-nent and placed under the highest sanction The content of the agreement Is far loss l Important than the fact of Its existence For the first time the great powers have COle together and partly defined their relations to one another In China This1 was a signal triumph for American diplomacy and a happy augury for that future concert of acton which Is to be maintained and a war over Its partition averted Secretary Secre-tary Hay luU not solved the Chinese problem but he has rendered its solution I solu-tion far easier by securing from tho powers a full acknowledgment that China ought not to be exploited to the exclusive advantage of any single power pow-er or combination of pbwcrs In the negotiation ne-gotiation of the HajPauncefole treaty our Secretary of State showed himself a broadminded statesman In the present correspondence he shows himself him-self a clever diplomat as wcll |