Evening star., 1937-05-23

~ IRST Chinese Ambassador to the
United States, DR.. Sao-ke Al
fred Sse, leaves Washington
L tomorrow for San Francisco,
thsn over the seas to Shanghai and
retirement.
After almost half a century Of
close association with the American
capitalize came here when he
was in his "teens"-this notable Dip
lomat has come to look upon himself
almost as one Of the native born.
80, as he sat in the Embassy yes
te1day and recounted his career and
his many associations here, now
about to be broken, tears came into
his eyes.
Il am sad" he said, "and yet I
am happy" Visibly he was torn
b. great emotions. Il am sad be-
cause I leave 50 many friends be-
hind me-friends OF my boyhood.
Am glad, happy in the extreme,
that leave at time when my coun-
try Is on the verge Of its greatest
unity-prosperity."
DR.. Sze confided that there was a
time when he received orders from
four different governments in China.
You see. I went to school here
As . boy-to Central High" His face
lighted Il was lieutenant in the
Cadet Corps"
Came Here at 16
Son Of a father who was associated
with the old Chinese Legation, young
Alfred SEE, as they called him then,
came to Washington when he was
only Is years of age. He just passed
his 60th birthday anniversary last
month. He began his American edu-
cation in the Force School at time
when the ancient Chinese Empire
was under the rigid rulership OF the
DoWager Empress. Then the national
costume was part and parcel of the
young Chinese boys patriotism as well
As religion. Because of his strange
attire the boy naturally suffered from
the jibes Of thoughtless comrades,
who sometimes pulled his pigtails,
but, as the saying goes, he took it on
the chin.
So manly was this little Chinese
fellow running around the school
yard at Force that he soon became
the school favorite. Later. when he
went to Central High he became just
like all the other boys
That he learned to love the Ameri-
can institution, and especially his
old teacher, NJ Ella Morgan, is at
tested by the fact that he and his
brother recently set up a memorial
to her-the Morgan Memorial Room
IT'S perpetuation guaranteed by Chi
nese bonds. Miss Morgan died in
1924.
You see DR. SEE said, I'VE Chinese
base almost everything worth while in
life on friendship. And I have Sc
many friends, and true friends. In
Washington. I leave them with a
genuine pang in my heart
Thinks Back Over Years.
For moment DR.. SEE was silent He
thought back over the long years, gone
Into the discard
Those were crucial times also, for
China. Now. I am glad to say-and
thanks to President Roosevelt-the
good neighbor policy has brought an
end to China's worries. At least I
hope So ="
Because of the great help extended
by America, because America adopted a
policy-the policy of the open door
and stuck to 1t through thick and
thin, China will not only profit. but
America and all the world will profit
along with China
America, OF all the great nations,
gave China a chance. The policy was
first set down by Secretary of State
Hay in 1899-and later developed in
the washington conference of 1922
under the American delegation headed
by the then Secretary OF State, Charles
Evans Hughes. That year saw the
birth OF the nine-poWer treaty, so
called-the treaty originally executed
by the United States, Belgium. the
British Empire, China, France, Italy,
Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal" "
CNeu WIlcl tlcdlS iSIlIlS were VlO-
lated by one member of the pact,
America stood by it's original declara-
ton-an open-door policy-the retir-
ing Ambassador recalls, and he gives
due credit where credit belongs. Not
only did the American State Depart
ment help China, in his estimation,
but the American Treasury Depart
nent did yeomanry work-in furnish
ing means for the establishment of a
stAbiliEation fund whereby China s
currency was put on firm basis.
China ON Way TO Prosperity.
with the sterilization Of China S
currency DR.. Sze said, China is on
the way to prosperity. She has cleared
Ill her debts in this country-paid of
all moneys in arrears; taken up the
notes at the Farm Credit and the
r. r. c.
China, poor as she is, and greatly
In need OF money, has paid in full
We always assured our creditors that