Word: orientator
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...international quarrels. After more than 15 years that policy was last spring embodied in a permanent Neutrality Act, just in time to die. For isolation to the U. S. means isolation from Europe and 1937 put isolation in a new light by raising a new problem in the Orient. Having failed to apply the Neutrality Act to the War in China, the President may have made it virtually impossible ever to use that law again, for henceforth other nations can legitimately cry "Why pick on us?" Last week, therefore, he went but little further in renouncing the theory behind...
...chosen as his subject "China Faces Japan," in which he will trace the historical background leading up to the present struggle in the Orient and the aims of both sides...
...Orient's greatest, suavest diplomats are Chinese Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo and Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Quo Taichi. Ordered to Geneva last week by Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...