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Electric in the air was a feeling that at this year's Congress of the Government Party or Kuomintang, it might be possible to face the realities of China and Japan squarely, or at least as squarely as Oriental minds can face anything. The reality is that a policy of Asiatic cooperation, even with vast China flying for some years as the kite on Japan's string, might get the Orient somewhere a great deal faster than it has ever got before...
...eight-week trip to the Orient with first-class accommodations for a man and his wife costs some $2,000, is about as pleasant a vacation as there is. It is even more pleasant if someone else is paying for it. Consequently, when Vice President & Mrs. John Nance Garner, with a party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
...travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that the U. S. eagle still has a protective wing over the Philippines,* was not evident in irrepressibly democratic Mr. Garner's farewell remarks...
...will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will do all the governing and the U. S. will have all the responsibility, largely because of shrewd Senor Quezon's legislative bargain-hunting in Washington during the past few years. One important phase...
Willy Hartner, Lecturer at Frankfurt University, Germany, whose field is the history of natural sciences, especially astronomy among the peoples of the Orient, the Near East, and Central America, will be Lecturer on the History of Sciences during the year. Dr. Hartner will be among the faculty men giving courses in the new doctorate field "History of Science and Learning" projected by President James B. Conant last spring