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This authoritative and readable collection of twelve essays is addressed to Americans who think that the U.S. cultural debt to Asia could be repaid with the return of a few porcelains, screens, Chi nese backscratchers and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ranging from agriculture to art, music to philosophy, the essays will be especially helpful to Americans who still regard Asiatics as exotically mysterious beings with whom they have virtually nothing in common...
Died. Mitsura Toyama, 89, longtime leader of Japan's arch-terroristic Black Dragon Society, often regarded as the secret center of the most determined Japa nese militarism; in Gotemba, Japan. Born into Japan's Samurai class, Toyama worked for recovery of Japan's military prestige,, became so feared that newspapers printed asterisks instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling...
...concluded until 1948 or 1949. Then Chiang will rule "New China" - a nation that confidently sees herself as the future "mistress of Asia." But neither Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only one-fourth are able to make ends meet...
...lags a sentence behind the actors when he goes to the English theater ; his mother is Cantonese but he cannot speak Canton ese well enough to get along with Chinese waiters; and he dares not call on the Chi nese Ambassador in London because "He'd probably expect me to speak Mandarin . . . jeepers...
...city of Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...