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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth White, 59, onetime Princess Der Ling, lady-in-waiting to China's Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi, first high-born Chinese woman to marry a foreigner (Thaddeus White, U.S. Vice Consul at Shanghai); after being run down by a truck; in Berkeley, Calif. Daughter of a Manchu ambassador to France, Princess Der Ling, in America, lectured to eager audiences, wrote reminiscences of Chinese royalty (Son of Heaven, Jades and Dragons), taught Chinese at the University of California...
Wang Ching-wei entered Chinese politics at the age of 27, with a plot to assassinate a Manchu prince. After his release from jail, he studied sociology and political science in France and Japan. Later, as an active Chinese nationalist, he became a devoted disciple of China's liberator, Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...authority on Chinese affairs. He studied in books and at first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless civil wars...
...citizen has wondered why the fleet was bottled up, in port, on Dec. 7, an easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result, charged Magnuson...
...Hollywood's curious conventions, the Japanese in this film are, as usual, played by Chinese while the Chinese are played by the Caucasians with their eyes painfully plastered in an Oriental oblique. The result suggests Dr. Fu Manchu and an epidemic of pinkeye...