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Despite adverse conditions last fall the University decided to continue its work as usual and help was given to students to return to Peiping after the summer vacation. 807 were registered at the beginning of the academic year, but two well-known scholars, Professor Ku Chieh-kang and Professor Juan Kang were not able to return...
...Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer...
...language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo's capital 31-year-old Emperor Kang Te, famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," last of China's Manchu Emperors, who abdicated when the Republic was set up in 1912, was crowned Emperor of Manchukuo by Japan...
Such conduct as this looked inexplicable to Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan...
Married. Prince Pu Chieh, 31, brother of Japan's Puppet Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, heir presumptive to the throne; and Hiroko Saga, 23, granddaughter of Japanese Prince Kinto Saga; in Tokyo...