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Backed by Occidental public opinion, the Council of the League of Nations handed down two unanimous decisions of the first importance last week:
To the confusion of highly paid special correspondents, the Chinese situation last week resisted all efforts at disentanglement. Super-Tuchun Chang, who has lorded it for several years in Manchuria, was evidently hard pressed by his revolted subordinate, General Küo (TIME, Dec. 7). But opinions differed as to...
At Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style. He shattered tradition by insisting that all the women present should remove their veils and join in an old-time Turkish dance with the men. Previously such...
In the past, the Tuchuns have often been thwarted in their war plans by an inability to obtain sufficient supplies of occidental arms and ammunition. Now it is asserted that "General" Sutton has "standardized the arsenals of Chang" so that "the rapid production of small arms and ammunition is becoming...
As for the destroyed Parliament building, rebuilt after a former fire 30 odd years ago, "it was universally conceded to have been improved by the calamity." Built at the worst "period" of Occidental architecture, it had become delapidated with the decades; and plans for a new building have been in...