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Dr. Kung's party and his hopes were both premature. For his foreign friends' benefit he chose the Occidental New Year. Not until last week did 400,000,000-odd other Chinese celebrate the passage from rabbit to dragon. The old year's record made new year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rabbit into Dragon | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Japanese diplomats try hard to act by Occidental standards of hard-headed opportunism, always end the Oriental way: face first, facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Insulted at Fuji's Feet | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

But in the last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Gateway Gunned | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

For $8,174.500, paunchy, grey-haired Oriental President Lewis Henry, of Elmira, N. Y., sold his company to Nihon Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nippon Mining Co., Ltd.). The deal: $756,700 cash; two payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Chosen Gold | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

After the broad Neutrality debates were finished last month, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dead Hare, Weeping Fox | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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