Voice from China

A few days before the $5,000,000 United China Relief campaign was opened in New York City in March by famed speech-making Wendell L. Willkie, the Rev. Harold W. Robinson '10 of Techow, Shantung, China, who has served there for the last 24 years under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, reported to a Worcester, Mass., audience that prominent Chinese claim a paltry $1,500,000 from the United States would enable them to carry on the war against the Japanese for another year to a possible victory. Proof of the pudding lies in the Chinese rate of exchange which makes the dollar very valuable and the cheapness of Chinese labor.

Although the Rev. Mr. Robinson has been pastor-at-large and general relations adviser among the Chinese churches, much of his time in the last few years has been devoted to war and flood relief work in an area which has stretches comparable to those of a No Man's Land. His Vermont childhood stands him in good stead when cold weather, flooded roads and fields put a 15-mile distant village four or five hours away. He now takes advantage of all available modern modes of travel but in his early years in China, bicycles, Peiping cart, and Shank's mare were his chief means of locomotion.

Two sons of the Rev. Mr. Robinson are wearers of the Green: Harold S. Robinson '39, a Harvard medical student, and James W. Robinson '42.