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...fact that today a student vagabond has the opportunity of hearing about the East in fairly early as well as modern times. Unfortunately, however, he must choose whether he will hear Professor Usher in Widener U on trade to the East in the sixteenth century of Professor Hornbeck in Harvard 5 on the United States war and treatles with China in the years 1844 and 1858, since both of them come at 9 o'clock...
There has been no official Nationalist attack upon the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai, and I do not think there is likely to be," said Professor S. K. Hornbeck in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
Professor Hornbeck continued by saying that the shooting and rioting in Shanghai which have occurred during the Nationalist capture of the native city where limited largely to the struggles of the Chinese armies. "The action which the foreign defense forces were required to take," he added, "was a police action such as was expected would be necessary where there was a disorderly mob. The situation which has developed vindicates the judgement of the foreign governments in sending armed forces to supplement the local police and volunteer in the expected task of preventing invasion of the Settlement by disintegrating units...
...time when the first of China's treaties with foreign powers was made, in 1842," continued Professor Hornbeck, "the Chinese city of Shanghai was a walled city of some 500,000 inhabitants. After the port was 'opened' by a treaty with the British, the Chinese officials set aside an area outside the city where it was agreed the British should live and carry on their business; also an area for the French, and an area for the Americans. The foreigners developed these areas, turned empty, swampy mud flats into a great modern city. The Americans and British combined their areas...
...conclusion, Professor Hornbeck said, "The Nationalist movement is a bigger thing than the Nationalist party. I believe in the Nationalist movement, which is nation-wide, and extends beyond the field of politics. I believe in it because national self-consciousness, expressed in a general awakening, is making toward progress, toward national unity, toward independence. When this has become a world of truly independent states, law will have some chance of being conclusive in international relations...