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...much except fizzle out. But it demonstrated that hope was far from dead in Chungking. During the week Japanese-inspired peace rumors rose mistily from Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong. The Chinese quickly fanned away these hopeful vapors. China's erudite Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Hu Shih said of these rumors: "Sheer nonsense. China has lost vast and important territories and has suffered stupendous casualties. ... In spite of these, China still fights...
...gloomy voice -that of Bryn Mawr's Archeologist Rhys Carpenter, who said that the "golden age" of Greece was tarnished and that even the Parthenon had ragged edges; of University of Paris' Professor Charles Cestre, who sent a paper praising modern U. S. poetry; of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S., who, observing that President Roosevelt could not even carry his own Dutchess County, declared that the U. S. was in no danger of dictatorship...
...highest honors the Chinese Government may bestow on a foreigner came last week to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. Presentation: the Grand Cordon Bleu of the Order of Jade, at the hands of Ambassador Hu Shih in Manhattan...
Prominent guests who will be invited include: Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States; Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith; Professor Frederick L. Schuman from Williams; Max Lerner; and Clarence K. Streit. The club hopes to get also the attendance of a number of foreign diplomats from Washington and a selected group of the University's faculty...
...Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise "America's greatest philosopher." It was John Dewey's 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women-among them Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih, Charles Beard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Fiorello LaGuardia-had come to his party. Nine organizations, including the Progressive Education Association and American Philosophical Association, had arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings...