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The Japanese planners do seem to have intended originally to grant the new Chinese officials a great deal of leeway. They in- sisted that they did not intend to create any "second Manchu- kuo, with Japanese advisers everywhere. Instead they felt it would be enough to have a few Japanese technicians and others dealing with the Chinese adminis- trations by a relatively remote control. But this was based on the theory that able men could be secured. The opposite has proved the case. Only in rare instances like that of Mr. Chen Lu, was it possible to find a Chinese of any standing willing to run against the strong stream of nationalist feeling. The city administration at Shanghai has, for instance, had to be put together with men who in some cases, had prison records. and in all cases were without pre- stige in the eyes of the mass of their fellow-countrymen. At Pei- ping and at Nanking, some aged long-out-of-office statesmen were recruited, but even that was not what was wanted, for still there was no one found really fit to do any really constructive work on his own.
was let you ;)] Political murders on a scale which is unnerving all officials who have accepted office under Up to Mr. Chen Lu's assassin- Japanese tutelage continue in ation, the Japanese had continu- Shanghai, despite all the precau ed efforts to get better men, on tions of the Shanghai Municipal a replacement-basis, and the ones Police and of the Japanese gen- originally obtained have had to darmerie in control of the outside face the prospect of losing their areas, where the majority of the "rice-bowl" jobs and being re- slayings have occurred. Latest placed by others. The latest epi victim of the gunmen will cause sore, therefore must be regarded the Japanese more disturbance as a sharp rebuff.
than many another. For Mr. Apart from political personnel, Chen Lu was one of the few Japan has made no better pro- figures in the so-called Nanking gress with plan for Chinese polic- "Reformed" Government who ing of the occupied areas. British Sym. orch. commanded real prestige and res- attempt to induce Marshal Wu The ..London Phil. orch. pect among his compatriots be- Pei-fu to raise an army of half Dupont & Sym, orch. fore he became "Foreign Minis- a million men at a rate of 100,000 Gieseking & Phil, orch. ter." He was China's Minister a year, has proved unsuccessful.
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to Paris for eight years and at The troops were intended for rail- Halle orch. the outbreak of Sino-Japanese way and highway guard primar- hostilities was Vice-Chairman of ily. Japan's own forces are al- Egon Petri.
the Treaty Commission in the ready spread out far more than Huberman & Phil. orch. Ministry of Foreign Affairs in was ever contemplated. Their
Nanking.
His death represents presence in China must be cost- a setback to the Japanese politi-ly, injurious to home morale, and cal programme far greater than weakening to Japanese home in-
is own immédiate loss, for it dustry and agriculture. came as a climax to a campaign The block from the Japanese of terror carried on with impun-viewpoint, is the stubborn, unex- ity against high and low, with an pectedly patriotic Chinese spirit. immunity from arrest which Japan still hopes to break it but could only be as complete as it the process is aggravatingly has with at least the passive con- slow.
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Although it is impossible to
condone the shootings, they do
reveal Japan's belief that opposi- Just Hatty tion and hostility would dwindle with time has overlooked Chinese
If there is one topic which has memories of atrocities, in Nan- been worn so utterly threadbare king and round Shanghai, which during the past two years that are not to be erased so easily. Be there is not a strand left to hang sides assassinations and threats a thought on, it's women's hats. of more, the Japanese experience newspaper columnists, the col- increasing difficulty in finding newspapers columnists, the col- new men because tensure of of- lege playwrights, the night club fice under them has recently been entertainers, the rhymists, the none too secure. A Chinese who cartoonists, have been telling us has taken office under the Ja that women's hats are humorous, panese is not in a wholly enviable Two rabbits and a sille hand- position, but one who has taken kerchief are as much as we have office and then been ousted is cer- ever seen come out of a magi- tainly facing a real dilemma, as cian's hat. But what we have is beginning to be realized in seen come out of a woman's Nanking and elsewhere.
hat
The Japanese had hoped that Besides, it's not fair. Women once they had attained a com- cannot always find hats when manding military position, it they go to buy them. They may would be a simple matter to per- be offered a bunch of whisk suade Chinese of ability to take brooms with a bell attached, or a office providing they were given typewriter cover, or a colander of good treatment - plus guarantees pink ribbon, but seldom is it of considerable freedom in admin-their good fortune to c come upon istering their areas for the good a hat. They have to take what both of the people and of them- the manufacturers give them. No. selyem--not an impossible set of one who has read "Fashion Is conditions as things are seen by Spinach" need remain in any the Japanese, who obviously en doubt on that point. But how visaged a sort of return to fold anyone has the temerity to say times" with a special pro-Ja another word about women's hats panese angle to the admir
is beyond un !