Word: wu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing the Japanese and Chinese viewpoint respectively Takaiso Matsumoto 1G.B., and Robert Dunn Wu '87, 1G., debated informally on the present situation in China last night in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Student Union...
Disagreeing that China is responsible for hostilities, Wu placed the blame with the Japanese militarists and said that Japan was an obstacle to world peace. He quoted from the well known Tanaka Memorial to prove that Japanese imperialistic ambition was not limited to China alone but extended through the whole world, and declared that it was the duty of every citizen of the world "to stop Japan in her aggressiveness...
There will be a debate. For the Island side, Takaiso Matsumoto 2GB, who has had teaching experience in the Mikado's universities bears the cudgels. For the Dragon, Robert Dunn Wu '37, relative of his country's ambassador to the United States will answer the bell. A general debate, open to all, is to follow the principal speeches...
...election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct appointment from Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich...
...week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...