Show Grateful and Gracious PHE COUNTLESS EXPRESSIONS of good will X THE I which have reached Generalissimo and MaS Madame Ma- Ma S dame Chiang shek Kai from Americans have drawn from them grateful and gracious It is easy to appreciate that AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican friendship is richly prized by these two outstanding outstanding out out- standing personages in China possibly has had hada a part in buoying up their spirits n the most try try- ing log period of their Jives lives Apart from material assistance which ha has j been privately given the friendly and sympathetic words which have gone from this country have done much to forge a abond abond abond bond between the Chinese and ourselves which may play playa a large part in stabilization that must come after the wars war's end Some time before his death the late John C. C Anderson then advertising manager of the Paris company wrote to the educated American Madame Madame Ma Ma- dame Chiang submitting ide ideas for employment by bythe the Chinese army From China then headquarters of the generalissimo her secretary D. D Z Koo comes a letter of appreciation appreciation tion advising that the matter had been placed with the proper military authorities for consid consid- China is fighting as well as she can with in inadequate in inadequate adequate quantity and quality of equipment says ay Mr Koos Koo's letter leiter shown to The Telegram by Mrs Anderson If she is defeated it will not be because of lack of courage or determination but because the democratic powers have failed to as assist assist assist as- as her to acquire what she must have if she is isto isto isto to win The Japanese are slaughtering and vioS violating violating vio vio- S lating the people of China in a measure such as never has been known in the modern modem world or even in the days of savagery Whether or not the democratic powers will realize that what is hap- hap in China can happen to them if the abandonment abandonment abandonment aban aban- of international law is permitted re remains remains remains re- re mains to be seen It could hardly be otherwise in China than that a deep sense of injury and resentment should persist there over the failure of the leagues league's collective collective collective col col- col- col machinery for world peace to function or of multilateral treaties to hold up under a realistic realis realis- tic test Chinas China's trust in these instrumentalities was rooted in good faith S SI SWe saw sawall all fail her in 1931 and subsequently on to the invasion now soaking her soil in blood the blood the undeclared war a thing not anticipated by the covenant or by the treaties In her hour of great distress she is unable to reason what the consequences would have been with Europe's realignments if it the democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic powers had intervened or even openly undertaken undertaken un un- un to supply China with war materials Responsible statesmen were justified in holding aloof The odds were too great favoring another world upheaval to have taken any other course Ethiopia and Spain offer parallel cases Noble ideals are bound up in the league covenant cov coy and in treaty obligations but the noblest ideals have to be capable of practical application to the realities to be effective This does not mean that they should be abandoned on the strength of their historic failures but they will have to be sent back to some future less passionate passion passion- ate foregathering of world leaders for major re re- re pairs In that convocation China will be prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to offer eloquent and persuasive testimony |