The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-29
Inside Washington
nv CHARLES P. STEWART

aro+;on,s irnnortant international personages.
Governments long have relied upon some lew
of these "rovers in times OF emergency.
Normally a plain ambassador fills the DILL
with his staff of assistants. Occasionally,
however, developments are so rapid that no
resident foreign representative can quite keep
up with thn.
The permanent or stationary envoy doubtless
understands his current local problems (even
very important ones) better than short-tme
visitor can possibly learn them in short order.
The outsider brings in some external hints,
but he takes some darned valuable hints back
home with him.
The .'rover'' also has certain "eclat" due
to the specific fact of his rovership. He
makes splash" when he lands in the foreign
capital.
For instance, Lord Halifax is ideal as Brit
aims diplomatic chieftain in Washington but
he is taken somewhat as matter of course.
He is the current days news.
Anthony Eden is thigh spot" He is a
British cabinet member. He is celebrity.
He is due to succeed Prime Minister Winston
Churchill-when and if-and boss or half boss
Britains share in the peace-making after the
war. In short, if President Roosevelt is our
postwar executive Tony Eden will be John
Bulls.
Eden is getting himself educated in ad-
vance.
But plainly, we have another ''rover" who
has all the rest of the migratory ENJOYS
lashed to the mast. She is Nine Chang
Kai-shek.
Of course, Nine. Chang is not an official
'.rover"
Nor is Nine. Chang, officially, diplomatic.
But, believe me, if she is not diplomat de
facto, as well rover, no such parsonage
ever toured this country.
The Chinese beauty not only is charming
woman but her ability is of the very
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with statesmen of world proportions. and they
have testified that she told them things they
had not known before and had profited by as
certaining.
For brains" one of these individuals re-
lated to me, Il have contraSted her with the
historic stories of Ehglands Queen Elizabeth,
and the comparison was not bit in Nine.
Changs disfavor."
On a 100 per cent basis, though Generals
simo Chiang's highly capable wife appears
entitled to considerable proportion of points
ahead of Henry Wis daughter.
The Virgin Queen was plenty smart and
for her era, well posted, but she had the
reputation Of good deal of temperamental
ugliness.
Nine Chang is beautifully, femininely gem
tie. She is not exactly appealing, for she
knows what she wants-for China. But she
asks for it in fashion to arouse no frictions
1t is the diplomatic method of conducting
such negotiations, providing that the negotia-
tor exactly understands his Cor herr business
Nine. Chang does. With China's needs she
is as familiar as any masculine civil or mill
tary authority in Chungking or elsewhere
perhaps more so than most of them.
She is acquainted with them for present and
1or postwar purposes, and she so submits
them as to convince Occidental leadership
that agreement will be as beneficial to their
nome lands as it will be to her own de-
mocracy's. Yet she does not do it in style
TO make it somewhat ''brash and sassy" as
IS Hussla's inclination. And it is not winning.
either
This is ideal diplomacy. by gravy, and
form OF it that the male sex is not overly
adept at.
On the distaff side of the border, other
ladies than Nine. Chang understand how to
be sugary and delightful, but they are unedu-
Gated as to details of the problems their men
folk are dealing with. Consequently, upon
material considerations, they are in danger
of being flimflammed.
The madame is as slick one way as she
is the other.
She has been so much advertised as a So
clal success that her diplomatic qualifications
have been played down trfle, probably. In
ternational experts, though, fully recognize
them