The Washington herald., 1921-11-21
CHINA LIKE BRIDE
ATFUNERAL, L,SAYS
W. ALLEN WHITE
Also Figures as Corpse at
Wedding, Despite Wei
lington KOO.
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
It Is one Of the paradoxes Of
world politics mat this conference
for the partial disarmament of the
world is assembled chiefly to anne
liorate the condition of China.
nation that has maintained herself
for 1000 years. conspicuous chiefly
for the fact that she has never
armed herself. II China had been
armed TO her teeth during the last
fifty years there would be no neeh
of the nations of the world laying
down their arms today. For this
conference is sitting and puzzling
it's head into befuddlement because
China isn't safe to be left out at
night
II there were no Chinese problem,
there would be no Pacific problem.
and II there were no Pacific prob
lem We Americans would not care
how much gun toting the world in
dulged in. After we have decided
what the spring fashions in man
killing millinery will be pext
spring. about the oniy thing left
for the conference to do will be
to bound China and adjourn.
Lacks Ties of Government.
But bounding China is no easy
matter. For no one knows ex-
actly what China is territorially.
Possibly Thibet is a part of China;
possibly not. 1t may be that Mon
golia is a part of China. but no one
is certain. least of all the Chinese.
South China may be included as
part of China by the Pekin gov
ernment. But the inclusion is bit
terly resented by the Canton gov
ernment. China is not held togtth-
er by the ties of str9ng central
government
About the only sure thing pollti
cally about the Chinese is their
antipathy to a monarchy. Each of
the two warning governments-the
Pekin and the Canton charged
that the Japs are aiding their enc
mics, and possibly both are telling
the truth, Japan might be support
ing both secretly to keep them
/ fighting.
Bound Only by Race.
Language does not bind China,
Admiral Tsai, the other day, in a
public address in Washington. de-
clared that the people in the south
part Of the city OF Pekin speak a
Afrerent dialect from those in north
Pekin. and he said that the sur
prising thing to a Chinaman about
Americans is that the Marylanders
and the Pennsylvanians speak the
same tongue. The thing that binds
China is race. And in dealing with
he
will have to forget boundaries more
or less, and the modern political
ties that hold political minded ma
tions together in national unity.
We must consider China as a ra-
cial unity.
China at this conference has for
the leader of her delegation, two
brothers-in-law-t amba sador to
England and the Ambassador to
America-who are under the infiu-
ence more or less of their wise old
father -in-law in China. He was
the father of the first wife of the
ambassador to England, Mrs. We'll
lington Koo. who died three years
ago.
Dresses in -Nobby- style.
Koo, in many respects, is one of
the most remarkable of living Chi
namen. and one of the conspicuous
figures of the conference. He seems
astonishingly young, yet he is in
his early 40's or late 30's. He is
easily the best-dressed man at the
conference, and delights in a GER
tain festive pink shirt, which he
tones down with the most correct
and somber black coat and trousers,
cut in what We Americans west of
the Mississippi River are pleased to
call "nobby" fashion. His collars are
a hit temperamental and of a certain
collegian joyousness that cheers but
does not inebriate. 1t is in hfs
kid-glove, button dress shoes that
he reflects his most salubrious Ori-
entail moods. In those shoes, with
jisger of emotional symbolism
sketched in by his suitable sox-
like bitters. Mr.. Wellington makes
a sartorial cocktail that is rather
better than "nippy."
Nor Mr.. Balfour in his grand and
gloomy and peculiar English toys
looking like an elderly satyr- in
black meal sacks, nor Mr.. Hughes in
his suppressed neckties and reveal
ing Freudian. .vestees, nor even. NJ.
Viviani in one of his gorgeous pur-
pile. grouches. Is the figure that Mr..
wellington Koo is when he strolIs
down. the diplomatic primrose path
into the Pan American Building.
And, topping his tailor's artistry,
Mr.. koo wears A smile that is SIM
ple and bland. Back of the smile
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