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...Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese. What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such. Tokyo knew last week that Japan produces no opium, that the British Empire (India) still exports...
...world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today it is the greatest port in the East, fifth most...
When a Vice-Admiral, a reformed Communist, a Rural Dean and a pioneer aviator meet in Geneva with an assortment of Germans, South Africans and Americans, they might discuss armaments, the opium traffic or a universal language. Such a group was in Geneva last week, but it was simple piety, not economics or politics, that brought it together. Misleadingly ominous were the invitations sent out for the meeting...
...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...