Word: orientator
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Consulate in that increasingly important port. Reports from China said that no less than 3,000 trucks were negotiating the trans-Mongolian route. It was a safe bet that a good many of that 3,000 were "fleshy trucks" of the Orient: mules, donkeys, camels, horses and men of burden...
Last week Rufo Romero made one of the most unusual protestations of innocence in legal history, one of the strangest of the Orient's many historic face-saving gestures. He offered to undergo any kind of brain surgery that would knife out of his head any recollection of military matters. He wanted to save his face even if it meant losing his memory...
...letter also appealed for a complete embargo against Japan saying that Japanese supremacy in the Far East would necessitate a U. S. military and naval establishment in the Orient. As a further measure to prevent Japanese hegemony over China, "all aid to China" was recommended in the letter...
After reading TIME'S advertisement in the papers, I bought my first copy of the magazine in weeks and there I found the most complete, accurate and fair estimate of the true situation in the Orient that I have yet to read in any magazine...
...Corps' fighting has been done while the nation was at peace. Without the thrust of wartime patriotism and the applause of the folks at home, Marines have gone thirsty and lousy, won medals, died. Today a whole regiment camps in Shanghai, the hottest spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they have been taught to do it. Their reward will be another campaign ribbon to pin on the breast of their blue tunics...