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Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...
...there were still breaks in the circle. Last week, as bespectacled Dr. Quo Tai-chi (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania '11) arrived in the U.S. from London, where he had been Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, en route to Chungking, where he will be China's new Foreign Minister, the U.S. moved to widen them...
...rule in his name. In the past this delegation of authority has meant that the Emperor had wealth and power only of mystic sorts. For most of Japan's modern history - from 1185 to 1868 - the real power in Japan was held by military dictators called Sei-i-tai-Shogun ("Barbarian-subduing Generalissimo"). The most astonishing degree of delegation came in the 13th Century, when a titular Emperor's functions as a figurehead were usurped by an abdicated Emperor, while temporal power was supposedly held by a hereditary Shogun, who left actual authority to the Shogun...
Three weeks ago the famed Eighth Route Army, rallying bands of tough farmers, went to work. By last week the Japanese Army admitted "considerable embarrassment," which is Japanese for plenty trouble. Guerrillas had cut the Peking-Hankow and Shihkiachwang-Tai-yuan Railways. They had captured and destroyed Japanese busses and trucks on the Peking-Tientsin road. And they had ensconced themselves in the beautiful Western Hills-not 30 miles from the city they stubbornly call Peiping...
...report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly...