CAMPAIGNS: China Man

Nasty insinuations against Candidate Herbert Hoover sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village—a model village—is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon the old

Chinaman was dictating in indignation: "Information has reached me in my retreat that persons in America and China insinuate that...

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