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When the Council re-convened it waited 20-minutes for China's Dr. Koo, while Chinese underlings explained to newshawks that "in-the Orient" such tardiness is "a sign of grave dissatisfaction." Unimpressed, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and French War Minister Paul-Boncour frankly dozed while Dr. Koo spoke for 90 minutes, threatening to revive China's boycott of Japanese goods, sarcastically observing. "If we believed everything the Japanese delegate told us we would be forced to believe that meek Japan is being devoured by ferocious China!" and hurling this challenge to the Council, "The time...
...until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars...
Shall Christian Churches in the missionary field be subsidized by home churches? No, says the Commission, "no church in any land will be robust and virile until it supports itself." Burma leads the Orient, with some 80% of the Baptist churches and 50% of the Methodist on their own feet. In China and Japan, about one-third are selfsupporting; in India even less...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will be submitted to mission boards of the seven churches this winter. Gist of the first four...
...Lytton Report (scheduled to appear this week), for at least another six weeks. Why? The Foreign Office refused to explain. To most Chinese and many an Occidental it seemed possible that Japan was asking the League to hold back the true text while she spread around the Orient a distorted version. Sailing from Shanghai last week, close-lipped Lord Lytton said of his Commission "Defunctns...