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...Harvard-Yenching Institute by offering summer school courses in Chinese and Japanese civilizations recognizes the increasing importance of American relations with the orient. Courses in oriental othnology, geography, politics and literature will give a sympathy with the characters of the nations which cannot be gained from newspaper dispatches. This sympathy alone can make possible a peaceful adjustment of Far Eastern problems...
...spoils she might win (see p. 11). The British Government was passive, inclined to expect a Japanese victory at Shanghai and disposed to let Japan keep reasonable winnings. The French Government, while sympathetic toward Japan, was apathetic except for slight alarm lest a discussion of "treaty rights" in the Orient should lead to discussion of the Treaty of Versailles (which France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo...
...nearly everyone is aware, news from the Orient appears much fresher than it really is because of the half day difference in time. Ordinarily U. S. Sunday papers carry Shanghai news dated Monday...
Here are a number of celebrities from all important countries except the Orient. The important U. S. figures are all there, from the young Lindbergh to the venerable Holmes, with such curious exceptions as Henry Ford and Henry Lewis Stimson. The European gallery lacks Spain's recent Alfonso, England's George and in fact all other royalty...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...