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...chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...
China. Yet the generalissimo has accepted Russian money before, and his Foreign Minister Chang Chun was once a member of the Canton Revolutionary Government...
...second time a small group of Harvard students are travelling to Lingnan University in Canton, where they will sleep on mats, cat rice, and absorb a blended education drawn from both Oriental and Occidental sources. The picture is a pleasing one--a Westernized institution of high standing set in the heart of ancient Cantonese culture, where the exchange of knowledge is fostered and developed. The picture lacks only one element, which may easily be supplied by the University authorities. Harvard should grant full credit and recognition to the work done by students in Canton...
...Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
...writes, "during his first visit to Peking [1912]. ... I was not greatly impressed. . . . It appears to be generally forgotten now that he left Canton for his last trip to the north in November 1924, thoroughly discredited. He had converted the most prosperous portion of that city into a charnel-house, and completely subordinated himself and the Kuomintang to Moscow Communists. He, who had owed his life on at least two occasions to British protection, and who, less than two years previously, had, in the course of an address to the students of Hongkong University, lauded the administration of the colony...