Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week one of the first detailed reports out of Malaya, biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold out to the Detroit Aircraft Corp. Detroit Aircraft soon went broke...
Meanwhile, in France and Germany, troubadours packed the swelling legend with local heroism, heart-interest, a couple of Greek legends and an anecdote from the Orient. Finally, Britain's 15th-Century poet-knight, Sir Thomas Malory, conferred a Round Table knighthood on Tristan and made him and the lady now known as Iseult part of his famed Morte d'Arthur...
...East, Chaplain Stroup complains, is not being made use of by the U.S.: "The truth is that [the] silk-hatted 'realists' have made a mess of things. . . . Our State Department 'experts' on Far Eastern Affairs have no better grasp of the problems of the Orient than have many of our outstanding missionaries. ... It was the missionary . . . who for years urged aid to the desperately struggling Chinese. . . ." What's more, "the loss of many American lives and long months of battle might have been avoided if the 'wisdom' of diplomats had given...
...Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter...