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Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. "Nietzsche's," he said, "is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six...
"Be bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen...
The new Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, son-in-law of the late, great Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, ordered out all available troops and armored cars, but these forces could not do more than check the rioting in restricted areas, though they did prevent the killing of even...
¶ Ever since the Nationalist Armies drove from China proper that rapacious, blood-thirsty War Lord Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, Sept. 24), many an alert occidental has queried: "What's become of Chang?"
Significant is the fact that last week Occidental businessmen in China who had feared that the Nationalists might clap on a 50% average tariff, were relieved when the figure announced proved to be only 18%.