Show Dont Quote Me MI By ByU United d Pre Tress Press C CI I These words arc the tho ones most frequently heard by ton correspondents Items which never Dever appear In the tho rt th patches and little Intimate pictures 0 of public charac characters charack rs appear In this column from o time e to o time WASHINGTON Jan 28 28 Eugene Eugene Chen intermittent forel foreign n minister In hi various regimes in the Chinese government government gov gov- since the 1926 revolution isone Isone is isone one of or the most unusual types found Cound in trat strange gathering of politically ambitious in the new China Ch na Chen resigned last week as foreign minister in the national government at when he failed to get eel support support sup sup- support port so he said for Cor his plan to break oU off diplomatic rel relations with Japan He had held the office only a few Cew weeks I Chen is a Chinese born in Trinidad and is a British subject He was edu in England and speaks with a abroad abroad abroad broad Oxford accent He has culty in understanding any dialect of or Chinese including the Mandarin now generally accepted even in the south AS is the language of ot the elite cUte It long has been the official language Man Man- Mandana dArIn dana in Chinese meaning official He Hc studied law in England and practiced heed a while before belore going goin to China Chinn I There he found the law difficult and turned to journalism to earn a precarious precarious pre pre- carious livelihood He edited an En En- language gUsh paper in at one aile onetime time and once when he got cot in trou trou- ble le over an nn article and was about to tobe tobe tobe be executed his British nationality got ot him out of jail and arid saved his life Then he went into politics He took his children Sylvia Percy Jack and Yolanda to China in the spring of 1927 1027 when he had ascended to o the heights as ns foreign minister Inthe inthe in inthe the old peoples people's party regime at His facility with the he pen made him a valuable spokesman spokes spokes' spokesman man and his diplomatic notes still arc are arca area a pleasure to pronounce aloud The four Cour Chen children today arc young men and women Sylvia is in her early twenties a graceful young Chinese Chinese girl who speaks no Chinese She and the others also went to school in n England Jack and Percy speak with the same Oxford brogue as their father They landed in Shanghai from Lendon London Lon Len don and had tea ten with a group of foreigners foreigners for for- eigners Including fellow cHow passengers at the Astor house then Shanghais Shanghai's most popular hotel It is older than others now but in 1927 was the place where everybody gathered in the late I afternoons to gossip and watch the I fashion parade Sylvia danced with the he party She confessed confessed young I Ic she mn In to dance more m rC than c earth anything o On Wh What t. t said one of her partners during the tea would dancing like to do most yO Id like to go to America a aon and on the s stage ge said the y da without hesitation S She never young lad I 1 die did |