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...places. Effect of the Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay...
Last week Dr. C. C. Wu, Chinese Minister at Washington, did a Robert E. Lee. Since 1929 he has represented the ''Chinese Government" which is the ''Nanking Government"?Nanking being a city in central China. Recently China's southern gentlemen in Canton staged a revolution (TiME, May 11), set up their own "Chinese Government...
...Japan recognized the new revolutionary "Chinese Government'' at Canton last week as a government de facto...
...Lawrence University (Canton...
Modestly, Venerable Tang called his message a mere "explanation" of why he joined the Canton Government. It implied, delicately, a plea for U. S. recognition...