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...like his countryman, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (TiME, March 21). combines diplomacy and literature. Having been educated at L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, having served as attache at the embassies in London, Rome, Madrid and the Orient, M. Morand quickly turned his energies to fiction and a study of the Negro. He is best known in the U. S. for his book, Open all Night. Thirty-nine, married, high-foreheaded, dark, hv tops the new generation of French and sensuous realists. "M. Claudel," said he, "is the greatest of Catholic poets...
Another lecture this morning of timely importance will be given by Dr. Hornbeck in Harvard 5 at 9 o'clock. His subject, "China: The Second Period of Conflict and Second Set of Treaties, 1844-1860", will be a study of the origin of the questions that now vex the Orient, and will constitute an invaluable commentary on the present situation. Other lectures of interest...
FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT-Lucian Swift Kirtland-McBride ($3.50). World travel, which means "The Orient" to most people, is becoming so common that a book of this sort at one's elbow is apt to be disastrously intriguing to all who should stay at home. It costs, says Author Kirtland, just about $15 in gold for every day you are on shore in the Orient. For a decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair...
...rushing too many armed forces to China (TIME, Jan. 31) these statesmen designed a stratagem. They caused the transport Chaumont to sail from San Diego, Calif., loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin...
...Simplon-Orient Express drew into Venice, newsgatherers watched to see if the royal salon car would remain coupled when the express puffed out toward Paris, toward Carol. Was a Crown Prince soon to cry, "Papa! Papa...