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...unpleasant realities of 1938 for the Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental trade out of Manchukuo. Japan's conquest of Canton last month put 20,000 British traders in Hong Kong temporarily, if not permanently, out of business. The Yangtze Valley is virtually closed to all except Japanese salesmen...
The next play was clearly up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the leader of the other great power whose home shores are washed by the Pacific and who has been the defender of unrestricted trade with the Orient ever since the China Open Door policy was sponsored by Secretary of...
With one projected piece of sculpture Mr. Connick had no quarrel: the monumental, distinguished design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure...
Reasoned Reply. Japanese rightly felt they were the chief butt of what had been launched from Chicago. The Japanese Foreign Office specializes in reasoned replies, few of which ever seem reasonable to Occidentals, and its specialists cheerfully went to work last week. They always bear in mind that Japanese authorities in China always extract from Chinese officials who happen to be at their mercy treaties, pledges and written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts...
This inaccuracy in equestrian art persisted until 1872, when patriarchal Governor Leland Stanford of California, a famed horse breeder, bet two cronies $25,000 that there is a moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years...