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...Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
...ORIENTAL HERITAGE?Will Durant ?Simon & Schuster ($5). A 1,000-page history of the Orient, with expositions of its religious beliefs and descriptions of its art; the first part of a history of civilization which is to run to five volumes...
Pointing to China as the Orient's most horrible example of attempted Democracy, the Bishop of Exeter concluded: "Life in India is much more like that in China than in Exeter! Twenty years ago some wonderful hopes were expressed about China. When the power of the Emperor was removed, there were to be representative institutions and responsible Government. Why has China's fairest province just been plucked from her? Because her generals are all dishonest! Their morality is completely gone...
...their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...been made infinitely easier than that of their predecessors. A prime source of diplomatic boondoggling has been removed. For since Saito has been in the U. S., his great & good friend cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has torn the mask off Japan's "mission in the Orient," has come out flatly and finally for Asia for the Asiatics, i. e. the Japanese. An illustration of how neatly this mission was progressing was at hand last week. After months of negotiation, Foreign Minister Hirota was about to honor China for its "cooperation" with Japanese aims by elevating Minister Akira...