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The American Council of Learned Societies, which is in charge of this big job, has found a new popularity. After having spent 15 years and $65,000 in a vain effort to interest Americans in Oriental languages, it now has a new appropriation of $100,000 and some willing students...
Commenting on the general situation in Eastern Asia, he stated that the evidence of growing Occidental appreciation of the rights of Oriental peoples is the most significant development of the century on the Far Eastern stage. One of the basic difficulties in our policy toward Asia, he continued, has been...
They had. The legend among oldtime U.S. pilots that Chinese make poor flyers took another body blow. Luke Field's Oriental fledglings had blown a few tires, scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they...
The Author. The Foreigners is an excellent introduction to China and her people in war & peace. It also introduces a distinctly talented if uneven new writer. Preston Schoyer left Yale in 1933 determined never to do a lick of work if he could possibly help it. Nevertheless, for two years...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were...