Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the "China incident," as the Japanese call the two-year-old war in China (see p.29) developed into more than a matter of yellow man killing yellow man. At the port of Tientsin, gateway to Peking and one of the first cities to fall to the Japanese, Japanese soldiers surrounded and blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West...
...killed in the British Concession at Tientsin. Japanese military authorities at Tientsin named four Chinese as the murderers, demanded that they be handed over. The British asked for evidence; the Japanese produced none. While the British proposed that an arbitration board headed by a U. S. chairman mediate the matter, the Japanese talked of anti-Japanese terrorists being deliberately harbored in the Concession. At 6 a. m. one day last week they ended their talk by surrounding not only the British but the French Concession with their soldiers. The French Concession had to be included in the blockade, the Japanese...
...Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...
...tale of Hollywood's lunatic fringe, The Day of the Locust regards its characters as the human equivalent of Hollywood's architecture: "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous...
...consequence of circumstances which need not be related here, President Conant recently outlined to me one aspect of the University's appointment policy which, though special, seems to have an important bearing on the general situation. In my opinion, President Conant could quite properly have touched on this matter in his letter referred to above, since it involves all the essential elements of the difficult problem of academic appointment and tenure. At least, by so doing, he would have given an important clue to his thinking on that problem...