Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium trade upon China. . . . The old smug compartmentalism is gone, never to return...
Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens. And it has the solid English virtue of never sacrificing plausibility to excitement: every detail, is made clear, and every character is pretty much of a human being...
Driving out of Shanghai's International Settlement to the westward, one notices the broad, quiet residential streets suddenly give way to a crowded, garish area, bright with neon signs and highly colored billboards, a section in which there is many a long, luring arcade leading to gambling halls, opium dens, places of "special" entertainment. This is Shanghai's notorious Badlands, most vicious hell-spot in the East...
...puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury setting out the fine...
...Press is now planning to print "The Quest for Peace" by William E. Rappard, the eminent Swiss political scientist. A study of De Quincey's "Opium Eater," by John C. Metcalf, was published last Friday...