The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-29

Rowing ENJOYS in
Place of Diplomats
on World Front

Rowing Ambassador" are
among this generations important
international personages. Govern
ments long have relied upon some
few OF these "royers" in times or
emergency. Normally a plain am
bassadoS fills the bill, with his
stan OF assistants. Occasionally,
however, developments are so
rapid that no resident foreign rep
resentatiye can quite keep up with
them.
The permanent or stationary en-
yoy doubtless understands his cur
rent problems (eyen very import
ant ones) better than a short
time visitor can possibly learn
thin in short order The outsider
brings IN some external hints, hut
he takes some darned valuable
hints back home with him.
The rover also has certain
"eclat". due TO the specific tact OF
his rovership He makes
splash" when he lands in the
foreign capital.
For instance. Lord Halifax IS
ideal as Britain's diplomatic chief
tain in Washington, but he is TAX
en- somewhat as a matter OF
course. He is the current day s
news.
Anthony Eden is 8 high spot.
He is a British cabinet member.
He is a celebrity He Is due 10
succeed Prime Minister winston
'Churchill--when and if-and boss
or half boss Britain's 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 educat-
ed in advance.
But, plainly, we have another
rover" who has all the rest OF
the migratory ENJOYS dashed TO
the mast She Is Nine. Chang
Kai-shek.
or course. Nine. Chang is not
an OniCial rover
Nor is Nine Chang, officially,
diplomatic.
But believe me, II she IS not a
diplomat de tacto. as we'll as a
rover, no such parsonage ever
toured this country.
The Chinese beauty not only IS
charming as a woman hut her sbil-
ity - y'lfSe very highest nrdeyo
She has talked in Washington
with statesmen OF world proper
tons, and they have testified that
she told them things they hsEAot
known before and had profted by
Ascertaining.
For brains one Of these in
dtvtduals related TO me, Il con-
trasted her with tbs historic
stories OF Englsnd's Queen Eliza
beth. and the comparison was not
q bit in Nine. Chiangs disfavor. -
OnA 100 per cent basis, though.
Gensralissimo Chiang's highly
capable wife appears entitled to
considerable proportion OF
points ahead Of Henry Wits
daughter.
The Virgin Queen was plenty
Enart and. for her area well post
ed, but she had the reputation OF
a good deal Of temperamental
Bgiiness.
Nine. Chang Is beautifully. fem
ininely gentle. She is not exactly
appealing, for she knows what she
wants-for China. But she asks
for Il IN a fashion to arouse no
frictions. Fl Il Is the diplomatic
method OF conducting such nego-
tiations, providing that the pego-
tiator exactly understands his Cor
herr business.
Nine. Chang does. With China's
needs she is as familiar as any
masculine civil or military auth
ority in Chungking or elsewhere
perhaps more so than most OF
them.
She II acquainted with them for
present and for postwar purposes,
and she so submits them as 10
convince Occidental Leadership
that agreement will be as benef-
cial TO their home lands as II will
be 70 her own democracy's. Yet
she does not do it in a style to
make II somewhat "brash and
sassy, as Russia's inclination.
And Il Is not winning. either.
This Is ideal diplomacy. BY
gravy, and a form OF II that the
male sex is not overly adept at.
On the distaff side OF the border,
other ladies than Nine. Chang
understand how 10 be sugary and
delightful, but they are unedu-
Gated as to details OF the problems
their menfolk are dealing with.
Consequently, upon material con
siderations, they are in danger Of
being fiimfammed.
The madame Is as slick one way
as she is the other.
She has been so much adyertis-
ed as a social success that her dip.
lomstic qualifications have been
played down a trifle, probably.