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Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
When Consul General Robert Piet Kisner climbed aboard the Orient Express at Paris one night last week, bound for his new post in Athens as U. S. Minister to Greece, he was performing an act of far more significance than taking a train ride. It was the first time a consular officer had proceeded to a new post without going to Washington to confer with the Department of State; furthermore, Mr. Kisner's appointment was the first important application of the Rogers Act of 1924, which combined the consular and diplomatic services into a single "Foreign Service...
...nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan is faced with the eventual necessity of seeking new outlets for her population. Even if these be won by military conquest, on the adjacent continent the Occidental powers must be prevented from interfering by the warboats of Japan...
...Chicago, urbanely, he heard plans for meeting an annual budget of $54,000,000. To a suggestive report on conditions in the Orient, already familiar to him, he listened imperturbed. "Because of the progress of the native movement in China and adjacent countries," said the report, "American leadership no longer is paramount there."* Presumably reference was made to the fact that the Asiatic "Y" has long been selfsupporting. Wealthy mandarins, Confucians, Buddhists contribute. Curtailment of Asiatic activity was recommended, and extension of program for South America, where "recent developments have opened opportunity...
...most such meetings, those who attended did so to orient themselves anew to the national aspects of their work. No item of new import was brought forward. Dr. Bundeson declared that all health education material intended for public consumption should be phrased in words of one syllable because the mental age of the public is twelve years...