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Meanwhile the Liberal Club's Executive Committee has announced its opposition to a bill proposed in the State Legislature by Representative Buell of Canton. This bill would declare the Communist Party illegal and would make participation in Communist activity a felony...
...Fate echoed Malraux's experience as a revolutionary in China's bloody years, 1925-27, when he was Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...
...Commercial aviation is making great strides in China. Regular services are now maintained north to Peiping, south to Canton and up the Yangtze to Chengtu, capital of Szechwan. From Shanghai to Chengtu, the trip used to take over a month at certain times of the year. This trip can now be made in two stages of a little over twelve hours flying time. . . . With railways and highways affording ample means of transportation and supplemented by ready means of communication, the safety of persons and property in the outlying districts will be increased, the administrative efficiency of the Central Government will...
...native of Canton, China. He graduated from Boone College, Wuchang, in 1911 with highest honors, and took his M.A. at Boone in 1915, his M.A. at Harvard University in 1919, and his Ph.D. from London University. He has been a member of the staff of Boone College since his graduation there. In 1929 he became president of Central China College, successor to Boone College, after being its acting president for two years...
...cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...