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Silas Strawn, able U. S. Customs Conference delegate, answered this question with a snap of his firm jaws. The U. S. delegations, he said, would stay and swelter indefinitely. Shrewd Mr. Strawn had caught the tenor of Japanese propaganda now being spread throughout China. It may be expressed in a sentence: the Occidental delegates are going to quit Peking because they are the enemies of China; but Japan, the friend of China, would otherwise have not only kept her delegates at the Conferences but would have championed China against the Occident.
Since Japan has pursued exactly an opposite course during the negotiations thus far, Mr. Strawn wisely deemed it expedient to encourage the continuance of the conferences by his example, lest the skillfully disseminated Japanese propaganda take effect.