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...class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...swish, rustle and ornate embroidery even the robes of Chinese courtiers to Her Majesty the late, ferocious Dowager Empress (died 1908) were scarcely superior to the gorgeous, brand new robes donned last week in Changchun, capital of the new state of Manchukuo, by splendor-loving Foreign Minister Hsieh Chieh-shih and his swishing, rustling entourage...
...Emperor of Japan, illustrious "Son of Heaven" He had spent the day writing diplomatic notes to President Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI, King George V, Premier Benito Mussolini and other foreign devils." Each note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
...importance of food in China. Once she saw her mother stave off a massacre with a batch of cookies. Mrs. Buck spent ten years reading the whole body of Chinese novels before she herself wrote. She is now translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused." But Mrs. Buck is sturdy, composed...
Still further trouble for the Nationalists arrived with the Japanese reply to a note protesting anti-Chinese riots in Korea. The reply was "unsatisfactory" to Chiang Kaishek. While drafting a second note and contemplating a Japanese boycott, the Nationalists were alarmed to hear that Rebel General Shih Yu-san was receiving advice from many a Japanese military specialist...