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No longer did Occidental missionaries dominate the proceedings of the council. Of its 147 delegates (representing all Protestant churches except Seventh Day Adventists), three-quarters were Chinese; so were three chairmen. For the first time, the language spoken was Chinese.
In Chungking last week New York Times ex-Dramacritic Brooks Atkinson took time out from war corresponding to see a Chinese Hamlet. The audience arrived at 8. The theater was "cleared of trash left from the afternoon performance" by 8:30. The curtains parted at 9. The cast wore false...
Wendell Willkie's last days in China were, in every way, the climax of his world-circling trip. They were a climax in the warmth that had everywhere been shown him as a man and as a symbol of the U.S. And he returned this lavish Oriental affection with...
Most people in the U.S. were hardly aware of an Asian event which Itagaki and the Japanese army never forget. That event was the weird (to Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to...
A previous dog of Ambassador Grew's, a black spaniel named Sambo, once drew from His Imperial Majesty Hirohito-one of the few informal remarks an Occidental has ever heard from the Emperor of Japan. One day in 1934 Ambassador Grew took Sambo walking outside Tokyo's Imperial...