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THE "SHANGHAI
A DOZEN yang aket, Arthur Lality, to-day there certainly is a elements, Tote
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DOZEN years ago the liberal to describe a type of die-hard men- way of protect
Ransome, coined a catchy phrase, But to-day war has grown so great great în magnit "The Shanghai mind.” Mr. Ransome quite definite "Shanghai mind tem- didn't care much for the "Shanghai pered by hardship and hammered What mind" as he then saw it. It stood into more liberal concepts. for everything reactionary. It is more, the mentality in question is coined money out of the Chinese and really international in essence despised those same Chinese as it did something never before seen here so. It enthroned the white man in a despite all the descriptions complacent, gunboat-protected, trea- Shanghai as an "international city," typort overlordship, and with stub- and the labeling of the major por- born blindness, resisted everything tion of foreign Shanghai as an that stood for progress.
“International Settlement.”
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of
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The other night I heard a visiting
Contrary to what seems to be the American.historian address a private general opinion in home countries, didly admitted gathering of American missionaries foreign Shanghai has
and businessmen, Among other things he expressed surprise at the change wrought in the Shanghai mentality since his last visit several years ago and he said that hence- forth he must evaluate the expressed desires of this community on a dif- ferent basis since he now realized the nature and extent of the change.
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never of re- whatever the. cent years demanded much in the groups manning
The Axis Powers
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There is a widespread notion that and slowly laying Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and tries and defenc Jugoslavia are now fated to fall un- a war as long as. der the influence of Germany and thought in totali It appears that one of the several Italy and that nothing can stop the ceive the rudest a really constructive results of the
totalitarian Powers from eventually entire history. China hostilities has been to bring getting supreme control,
without the missionaries and the business- men close together, and to liberalize spirits in all quarters. It is to be doubted whether there really was a "Shanghai_mind" in the old sense, although that phrase came in handy
Kine-Exakta
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HELMUT NOCHT
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING
HONG
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CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG
"On the other Mr. Graham Hutton in known in Italy a the combined Br his book, "Danubian Destiny" (Har-
Navies can afford rap) gives the facts of the situation, and his expert knowledge as a dis
snap their finger sessions in the F tinguished economist stands him in | good stead for a survey of this char- to cut losses in
in Asia Minor, t acter. His book is of absorbing in- terest. In his chapter on "The New Suez Canal, and Danubia" .he. writes:
troubling about the acquisition of territory.
"As long
as
terranean-as lo ships can control "German and Italian strategy has Cape route to. In long been based on the assumption sian Gulf, and F that (a) a general European war, home waters. or a war. in the West, should at all costs be avoided by a diplomacy French 'Navies e that threatens war merely in order
ing and supplyin to secure peaceful successes; and
peoples and ind (b) that should a general European products of the A war break out, involving Italy along nions, Africa and with Germany, it must be a war in
ability of Britai which every kind of 'frightfulness' be kept down to must be employed at the outset in the air alone. order to secure a rapid decision have to evacuate (not, as in the Great War, pro-sia and Nice and gressively as the war wound its may and Germany.tog along).
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"This second contingency is res- Belgium and De ponsible for the Italo-German policy Africa, dig then of building up enormous re- this would be a serves of foodstuffs, industrial raw job!) in Spain, materials, armaments, munitions political and eco armies, etc. If these resources the New Danubi thrown into the scales of war at and the Near 1 the outset, are. sufficiently large would not bring they can be expected suddenly to Staff officers ter overwhelm the combined resources "The war wou of Britain and France by more argued, until sca than, let us say, the four-to-one be left standing ratio of superiority needed by the Ruhr, in Paris a offensive in modern war.
THE RUDEST AWAKENING "Britain and France, methodically
and Munich; but 000,000 British a pe, plus whomso and transport
By
Bringing Up Father
IT'S CHILLY
IN
GO BUILD A FIRE, IN THE GRATE:
NO WONDER-YOUR
BROTHER WENT HOME IT GOT TOO COLD FOR HIM TO SLEEP-AN HE WAS AFRAID YOU MIGHT ASK HIM TO BUILD THE FIRE-
BY GOLLY- THE CHIMNEY MUST BE STOPPED UP-
IT WAS
HAPPY DAY, FER ME WHEN
HT THIS
BUT IT'S
DAY LEIT
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THAT CHIMNE