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Koo. Dr. Koo is even better known to the Occident. He took his Ph.D. at Columbia, delights in tennis and trout fishing, served until recently as Chinese Minister to Great Britain.
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class...
Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no...
...people have often boasted of the superior quality of their intellectual awakening as manifested in their political life. Their boast is not without grounds for it does take a very open state of mind to force the body to act according to the dictates of the conscience and an Occidental political career presupposes a certain element of domination by conscience. It must not be forgotten, however, that the European awakening has been confined to that phase of action which concerns the preservation of European liberties...
The character of the regeneration of the European nations would seem to preclude the idea of European selfishness. Nevertheless, since the overthrow of the pre-war balance of power policy, these nations of the Occident begin to show strong signs of desiring to handle lesser powers in a very arbitrary...