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Yet only 75 years ago Japan mortally feared and hated the U. S. and all the Occident. But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations." In a flurry of trepidation and prayers the Japanese received his suggestions, sewing machines, toy trains...
It is peculiarly true of human nature that "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Men used to call upon religion to support any system that was to their advantage. They had divine revelations about the place of women in society, the privileges of kings and...
Not unto glamorous "Holy Russia" but into the drab, mechanized Soviet Union came last week the first Reigning Sovereign to enter Moscow since the days of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The visiting potentate was His Majesty, King Amanullah of Afghanistan, styled by his Moslem subjects, "The Peace of God." Accompanied...
THE LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that...
But she leaves behind her a most unphilosophical Buddha, as is seen when Jâli forsakes his willow tree and, in hot pursuit, takes passage to the U. S. Lunch with Rosemary at Sherry's ends in catastrophe when the people at the next table object to "the...