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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1938.
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that Americans in China can- but not remain without risk to them-
selves. Such a policy, combined with a wider understanding of what this risk actually involves, should eliminate individuals with no urgent reasons for remaining in that country. Those who have such reasons, on the other hand, might well be spared any special official pressure to leave.
The Miniature Stage
The British Puppet and Model
Hong Kong, Vednesday, Jan. 12, 1938. Theatre Guild has just held its
U.S. IN THE FAR EAST
twelfth annual exhibition in Lon- don. The growth of the Guild, and of the movement generally in the British Isles, has been rapid in the last dozen years; and all over the country now the little men of the miniature stage are Cordell Hull's letter to the having busy days. President was SO cryptic It has long been recognised in its observations as to give rise that good drama, like good gov- to considerable speculation. The ernment, flourishes best where it primary interest of the United has the understanding and co- States Government in the Far operation of the people; and East, he wrote, was maintenance that a drama divorced from the of "orderly processes in interna-populace has been denuded of its tional relationship," adding that taproot. Again, from the educa- this transcends in importance the tional point of view, the drama value of American trade inter- has the quality of mercy in that ests or American investments in
it is twice bless'd; China. “It transcends even the It blesseth him that gives,
and him that takes. question of the safeguarding of the immediate welfare of Ameri- The practice of it is, therefore, can citizens în China.
being encouraged in schools, col- Taken in
conjunction with leges, and clubs, and in social rumours from Shanghai, suggest-centres everywhere. ing the possibility of the with- In some of the smaller schools, drawal of American marines however, and in the more isolated from the International S Settle- communities, problems are en- ment, it is apparently a reply countered, connected with ex- and a denial to such apense, and space, and the per- decision for it is difficult to sonnel, and mechanical adjuncts, fathom the purpose of any policy required, that prove difficult of of abandonment of Shanghai as solution, and in these cases the a contribution fo the mainten-model theatre is especially valu- ance of orderly processes. Inable as a substitute for the thea fact, Mr. Cordell Hull's letter tre proper. Without raising any might be quoted
a of these problems, - puppets and challenge to those who argue marionettes can be made the in- that the Far East policy of the terpreters of a significant, ima- United States should be governed ginative,
and comprehensive not by ethical considerations but drama. In addition they have the by the fact of her greater trade advantage of providing more with Japan than with China. scope for craftwork.
The puppet has in his It is obviously impossible for
time the United States to afford literal (leaving China out of considera- physical protection to American tion for a moment) played many citizens who are in actual: or parts. He has been the mouth-
ial war zones. Even in piece of political and social satire, har the presence of the has voiced the anger of the op- while it offers a guar-pressed, laughed at the preten- antee of safety against uncon-isions of overweaning authority, trolled mob violence and looting, and given pointed utterance, to cannot avert the risk of casual- the good sense of the common- ties from stray shells or misdir-alty. Now, though he shows no ected bombs- And while the signs of evolving into that Uber- United States Government in all marionette that Mr. Gordon Craig cases where responsibility can be demanded, he is performing one clearly indicated will doubtless of the most useful roles of his file protests and damage claims career in encouraging many peo- for loss of American lives oriple to take a practical interest destruction of property, public in the art and aims of the drama.