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Some 300 years ago one Daniel Jean-richard, blacksmith of the town of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, turned from his horseshoeing to inspect an object in the hand of a friend. "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?" he inquired...
Jubilant were the foreign diplomats. They and their legation and embassy buildings have stayed in the P-city. and there they will stay, not letting any Chinese bamboozle them into thinking that the "Capital of China" is at Nanking or Canton or anywhere else. For China has reached such a state of chaos that she has no capital, no government. She has only earth and more people on it than live anywhere else...
...successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers and police were to be barred. The Western Powers promptly rejected the plan as a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty...
...Japanese soldiers who punched the face of U. S. Consul Culver Chamberlain were suffering no more serious punishment than confinement to barracks. Far more exercised were the Japanese over China's increasingly effective anti-Japanese boycott. Spokesmen at the Foreign Office talked wildly of blockading Shanghai or Canton in retaliation...
...Nanking nervous, high-strung little Chinese President Chiang Kaishek, who has been squabbling for months with the other Chinese Government (the one at Canton), abruptly resigned, announcing that Canton leaders would come north and take over the Nanking,Government. Panic stricken, Mrs. Chiang (Wellesley '17) fled by plane from Nanking to safety in the International Settlement at Shanghai...