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...Chinese are unbeatable by the Japanese of 1938, for the same reason that they have been unbeatable as far back as history goes. The Chinese people have biologically absorbed and turned into "Chinese" all their many conquerors, of whom the last were the Manchus. Last week Newspundit Walter Lippmann concluded from the fall of Canton and Hankow that "Japan has won the war." but neither Chinese nor Japanese agreed with newsy Occidental efforts to anticipate the ponderous course of Oriental history...
Crisis-Proof? From Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Chicago Daily News's famed Balkan newspundit, M. W. Fodor, who operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist...
...People "of the Hebraic race" who have settled in the Kingdom of Italy, Libya or Italian Aegean Islands since Jan. 1, 1919 were last week ordered by the Italian Cabinet to depart before March 1, 1939 or be forcibly expelled. Commented No. 1 Fascist Newspundit Virginio Gayda: "These Jews, political or racial refugees of other countries, represent a foreign and perilous body and spirit inserted in the body and spirit of the Italian nation." The decree will oust about 20,000 of the estimated 85,000 persons in Italy "born of both parents of the Hebrew race." Next...
...last week was U. S. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, whose publishers seized the occasion to release her 122-page, fact-packed book, Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?*. No secret is it that Miss Thompson's magazine and newspaper crusade stimulated President Roosevelt to call the Evian meeting. Into her book Newspundit Thompson crams a survey of the post-War history of the refugee problem and a grandiose proposal to deal with...
...Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Prague had "invited" Britain to send a mediator. Next day Prague officials said they had sent no invitation, added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...