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...flat. He will hire a faculty of a director, three assistant sculptors, a painter, a musician and several industrial technicians. Opening in October, the Taliesin Fellowship will have room for 70 apprentices at a little over $500 yearly apiece. Among them will be Manhattan Sculptress Lucienne Bloch, Peiping Architect Yen Liang and Vischer Boyd, son of a Philadelphia architect...
Imperial Gesture. Four days after this protest the Son of Heaven himself donated 4,800,000 yen (currently $1,200,000) from his privy purse to relieve distress among Japanese farmers, fishermen and tradesmen on the eve of the opening of a special session of the Diet...
Munitions. In Tokyo the only real industrial activity centered in munitions plants. A new war chemical factory opened in the suburbs. Orders were placed for 500 military automobiles. Airplane factories worked overtime to turn out fighting planes which are being paid for in part by the yen of Japanese schoolchildren. Imports of oil, glycerine, iron ore. U. S. machine tools increased markedly...
Dead Silence. Most embittered delegate at the Conference last week was China's Dr. W. W. Yen. He proposed an amendment which would have bound the Conference countries to abstain from the warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...
...agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...