Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Due de Morny, who didn't mind the people as long as they didn't come at him downwind, Biddle and Bullitt have had to learn how to shake hands with the grubby masses without visibly wincing at the thought of a soiled white glove. But long before Joe Kennedy was appointed to London, Bullitt-who in Paris goes everywhere, sees everybody, knows all-had made himself a diplomatic success...
...Africa's Boers, however, are passionately anxious to maintain control over South West Africa. They would rather see the world's richest gold and diamond mines, the Rand and Kimberley, exploited by Britain than raped by Germany. The Boer leader who gets on best with Britain is white-bearded old Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier of the Boer and World Wars, national hero and ex-Prime Minister...
...possible alternative for such a realignment would be absolute domination of the Far East by Japan. And the World War made this alternative the more pleasant and probable prospect to most Japanese. They already had a characteristic phrase for Europe's war-"Divine Gale" to blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite, more...
Meanwhile the unlucky Chinese began to feel the gale's force. Having once hated foreign devils for exploiting China, now they look upon them as China's white hope for resistance against Japan. But the European War lessened probability of aid from the white man. In Hong Kong, for instance, which has been the centre of Chinese financial juggling, the British announced that they could no longer allow unrestricted exchange of currencies. China's financial brain, Harvard-educated T. V. Soong, immediately went inland to Chungking, taking with him most of China's financial resources, human...
...Saddest educator was white-haired Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to promote world good will by international exchange of university students. Dr. Duggan expected the war to play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America...