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...permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged by Chinese historians from many Chinese schoolbooks on orders from Japan, and hard to find even a few weeks ago was an eminent Chinese bold enough to say with Peiping's great Historian-Philosopher Dr. Hu Shih: "It would be better to make a Belgium of North China and to make Peiping the Louvain of the nation, than to give up without a struggle...
While the greatest of modern Chinese thinkers and philosophers, Dr. Hu Shih, Dean of the School of Literature at the National Peking University, was being feted last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the China Society of America and was toasting China's increased political unity, in Shanghai some courageous Chinese cabaret reveler was throwing a pear core at a marching Japanese bluejacket and thus offending the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This culminated a series of "incidents" during the past two months. When mysterious individuals in Chinese costume, possibly disguised Japanese agents provocateurs, then fired...
...Shih, of the National University of Peiping, Philosophy...
...Shih showed the frailty of the whole plan when he mentioned that for years there has existed a similar organization attached to Geneva, whose effectiveness has been thwarted by the same forces which neutralize the League of Nations itself...
Other Harvard candidates: Astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Cambridge); Historians Edward Samuel Corwin (Princeton) and Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (Yale); Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (Technische Hoschschule, Zurich); Anthropologist Bonislaw Malinovsky (London); Philosopher Hu Shih (National University of Peiping...