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What that meant was that Jewish settlement of Palestine was to be brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto...
Driving out of Shanghai's International Settlement to the westward, one notices the broad, quiet residential streets suddenly give way to a crowded, garish area, bright with neon signs and highly colored billboards, a section in which there is many a long, luring arcade leading to gambling halls, opium dens, places of "special" entertainment. This is Shanghai's notorious Badlands, most vicious hell-spot in the East...
...their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury setting out the fine points of certain bullet-proof vests. Shanghai's "biggest jail in the world," Ward Road Gaol, is expected before the end of 1940 to house...
Japan's Army could clean up the Badlands overnight. But Japan's Army knows better. It much prefers to cultivate the Badlands as: 1) a source of needed revenue; 2) a point of pressure on the International Settlement. For over a year the policing of Shanghai, both inside and outside the Settlement, has caused a two-way controversy. The Japanese want control of Settlement patrols (which would be the next thing to getting control of the Settlement) and the Settlement's Municipal Council wants to help keep order in outlying areas. Last week the Municipal Council...
...donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter to President James N. Rosenberg of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association he maintained that the immigrants would "stimulate the progress of our country," suggested an agricultural bank to help the refugees market their crops, and expressed his all-round interest in cooperating with the "humanitarian plans of President Roosevelt." Last week the project was made official by the Dominican Senate...