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From that time on, although he occasionally tried to pull out, he was hip-deep in Chinese affairs. He became editor of the Far Eastern Review, with an eye to breaking down "the cake of custom" blocking the modernization of China. He had a seat at the negotiations over Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands upon China in 1915, and helped soften the blow which would have made China a vassal. The Japs never forgave...
...first time, Canadians are taking a good look at what their artists have been up to. From Toronto to Montreal last week went "The Development of Painting in Canada," a 240-picture show which aims at a full, chronological review of the nation's art-from early 17th Century, French-inspired religious canvases down to the most modern (and also French-inspired) abstractions. The show's outstanding point: Canadian artists have passed through about the same esthetic cycles as other colonial countries. They began by holding tight to the mother-country's stylistic (French Louis XIV) apron...
...sharp differences between France and Britain over Syria and Lebanon are emphasized ... in a review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...
...reported in the American Review of Soviet Medicine last week, the process thus far seems to work in the thyroid and menstrual conditions. But U.S. doctors, who have tried similar exchanges on animals (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), do not think much of this Russian idea. To be effective, virtually all the blood of the patients involved would have to be exchanged; and even so, the benefit would be temporary at best...
...sharp differences between France and Britain over Syria and Lebanon are emphasized ... in a review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...