Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting chapters in the volume is that on "Romanticism and the Orient." Here we have the fullest treatment of the modern misconception of the Far East that Professor Babbitt has yet given us. To be sure, one has learned from his lectures of his growing preoccupation with the Orient, but except for a few hints he has not written or spoken at length on the subject. "The whole subject . . . is full of pitfalls," he writes. "Rousseauistic romanticism has had an important influence in the Far East," and the teachings of Lao-tze have given China a primitivistic tradition...
...bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan will try to stabilize silk only by urging smaller production and because the visible supply was equal to only a three-month supply, raw silk merchants last week were inclined to be bullish...
...Harvard-Yenching Institute by offering summer school courses in Chinese and Japanese civilizations recognizes the increasing importance of American relations with the orient. Courses in oriental othnology, geography, politics and literature will give a sympathy with the characters of the nations which cannot be gained from newspaper dispatches. This sympathy alone can make possible a peaceful adjustment of Far Eastern problems...
...spoils she might win (see p. 11). The British Government was passive, inclined to expect a Japanese victory at Shanghai and disposed to let Japan keep reasonable winnings. The French Government, while sympathetic toward Japan, was apathetic except for slight alarm lest a discussion of "treaty rights" in the Orient should lead to discussion of the Treaty of Versailles (which France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo...
Here are a number of celebrities from all important countries except the Orient. The important U. S. figures are all there, from the young Lindbergh to the venerable Holmes, with such curious exceptions as Henry Ford and Henry Lewis Stimson. The European gallery lacks Spain's recent Alfonso, England's George and in fact all other royalty...