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The Municipal Council of the International Settlement of Shanghai was a government as close to a plutocracy as the world has ever seen. For 96 years the Council ran the big city on the Whangpoo mud flats for the especial benefit of a tiny group of the city's...
For the careless Occidental plutocracy of Shanghai the Japanese invasion was the beginning of the end. When in 1937 the Japanese took over a large section of the city, the bottom dropped out of the Chinese dollar, in which Shanghai collected its taxes. For three years the Settlement Government staggered...
On Man and Nature, commissioned by Rockefeller Center, Inc., as part of their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German...
A reliable Occidental informant, said that "a Japanese battle fleet" was concentrated off Haiphong, Indo-China, yesterday, but that "nothing was known of the reasons" for the demonstration.
SHANGHAI (Friday)-Fear that the European war might spread to the Orient "at any moment" was voiced in high Occidental diplomatic quarters today and appeared to be based on a belief that Japan will join Germany and Italy in a simultaneous "knock-out" offensive against the British Empire.