Word: yutang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
China's long-fighting, long-suffering people, faced with a United Nations policy of concentrating on the European front, a policy which has caused Lin Yutang to call China "The Forgotton Front," has not fallen back into its thousand-year sleep. So says Shouchang Pu. 1G, a Chinese citizen who cites as evidence the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, an organized movement of the civilian population, which has played a large part in keeping Japan's original victim in the war on the Allied side...
...noted Chinese who did not have to conceal his bitterness was Philosopher-Author Lin Yutang. Said he: "Let me ask the American people a question: Why should not General Hsiung leave? Of what use can his presence in Washington be to the Allied cause-since the leaders of the United Nations appear to be far from ready to share with China a unified strategy against Japan? The enormous reservoir of good will between China and America is being severely drawn upon...
...China. But the U.S. and Britain, intent on fighting the Axis, have neglected the psychological front among a billion Asiatics. China is fighting as a free nation, but India, demanding freedom, is being kept from it by wartime realities and political confusion (see col. 3). Chinese Scholar Lin Yutang last week gave one appraisal of the situation: "If it appears to the Asiatics and the South Americans and the people of the countries subjected by the Axis that we are fighting for empire and not for liberty ... if faith in the integrity of our cause is shaken, the effect...
...these tightening defenses were apparently not enough. Wrote the Chinese best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang: "From every corner of the earth, from Batavia, Melbourne, Chungking and even from London itself rises the cry 'Singapore must be held.' The loss of Singapore will be the costliest mistake of the whole war. If I could write words 30 feet high I would write these words: Singapore must be held...
...Yutang is a novelist of strict limitations. His popular-philosopher serenity betrays him into platform sleekness. A too-crafty craftsman, he complicates his action with a set of tediously artificial misunderstandings...