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LUCE'S PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU NEW YORK, N.Y.

CLIPPING FROM NEW YORK (N.Y.) MIRROR JUNE 21, 1938

Whalen vs Harvey Still Feud in Fair
Despite an apology from Grover A. Whalen, president of the Worlds Fair Corporation, to Mrs. George U. Harvey, wife of the Borough President of Queens, for the "very stupid" act of a "minor employe" in canceling her pass, relations between Harvey and Whalen became still more strained last night as Harvey's aide, Acting Borough President John J. Halleran asked for an investigation of the episode.
"Mrs. Harvey has asked me to accept your apology," said the Halleran letter to Whalen, "but personally, I should like very much to know why the wife of the Borough President should have been subjected to a public snub on the part of the Worlds Fair officials.
"I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that this is but one of a series of efforts to embarrass the Borough President by officials of the Fair, if not by yourself personally."

'Courtesy Is Policy'
Instead of notifying Mrs. Harvey that her special pass would not be honored, Halleran complained that the order had been issued to gatekeepers without her knowledge.
The letter canceling the pass was signed by John S. Major, head of the Treasury Department of the Fair. It informed gatekeepers that a pass issues to Mrs. Harvey on the second day of the Fair was void, and instructed them to take her to the Administration Building, if she presented it. The letter said Jack Reilly of the special events department would buy her a ticket.
"The policy of the Fair is courtesy," said Perley Boone, publicity chief, yesterday. "We have apologized. If Mrs. Harvey

(Mirror)
JOAN VICKERS.
Doesn't dress warmly enough.

comes here, she will be extended every courtesy." In an aside, he commented:
"The Governor bought a ticket for his wife, the Mayor bought one for his, Whalen bought one for Mrs. Whalen and I bought one for mine."
Meanwhile, Joan Vickers, 22, and Fay Krop, 20, the two scantily clad dancers arrested at the Fair Monday night charged with indecent performances, were arraigned and their cases continued in $500 bail for hearing June 30. They are the third and fourth such entertainers taken into custody since protests against nudity were aimed at the Fair.
Miss Ya-ching Lee, Chinese good-will flier visited the Fair late yesterday after landing on Flushing Airport in her plane, "The Spirit of New China." She flew from Pittsburgh on a 20,000- mile nation-wide tour for the Chinese National Government Relief Committee. A delegation of more than 100 Chinese greeted her at the airport.
Clarence Chamberlin, who flew the Atlantic in 1927, was a visitor to the Aviation Building.
Two 15-year-old boys, selected as "typical American high school students," were awarded round-trip tickets to Japan in a brief ceremony in the Japanese Pavilion. They were Frederick Coleman, of Brooklyn, and Alvin J. Kozak, of The Bronx.

6/22/89
Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursd

The Oriental Situation And Nipponese Character

Over oriental battlefields are drifting some of the scattering war clouds of Europe. The situation in northern China is peculiar, not only because of provocative tactics evidently borrowed from the nazi-fascist members of the triumvirate, but as a study in Nipponese character. Nations are naturally like the people who comprise them. If the natives are pugnacious, their government will be; if they are resentful and vengeful, that is the sort of leadership they will follow.
The Japanese are a cohesive, patriotic, fatalistic, supersensitive people. One who "loses face" feels forever disgraced in the eyes of his comrades. To fail in some public duty or be thwarted where success was assured may cause the humiliated individual to commit "hara-kiri." This means suicide to avoid reproach and atone for error.
When Japan, with its disciplined army, formidable navy, superior leadership, ample munitions, deadly bombers, trained aviators and a united population, invaded China with the avowed intention of subjugating it in 90 days, they were confronted with ignorance, poverty, indifference, disunion and the support of rebellious groups in every province. The harried people were unarmed, unprepared, uninformed and apparently anxious for any change which could not possibly make their condition worse and might make it better.
Japanese atrocities awakened them to the nature of the foe. When their towns were burned, their cities bombarded, their women and children slaughtered in the fields and market places, their boys and girls enslaved and degraded, the slow-moving celestials began to retaliate. The peasants decided to defend the landlords and the official class undertook to arm and encourage the serfs. Civil strife was dropped and armies were recruited. The Chinese became united in a common cause for the first time in four centuries.
Finally, in the face of battle engines and death-dealing agencies with which they could no longer cope, the ragged volunteers moved inland, away from the ships which seemed to be the chief reliance of the enemy. The Japanese troops that followed were ambushed, harassed, mowed down by guerrilla bands who knew the country and how to live where no other mortal could survive very long. After futile attempts covering a period of years with no decisive victory in sight, the Japanese military leaders knew they would fail in what they had undertaken with such confidence and boasting. They have lost face as a nation unless by some action similar to individual hara-kiri, they can regain their standing and credit.
Under the circumstances, what could be more natural than to turn on a power they know they cannot conquer; to insult and aggravate such a government; to start a conflict as fatal as falling on the sword of suicide? Two preservatives are thus presented, either of which is preferable to defeat by the Chinese: There is a chance to win applause for pluck in defying a formidable power and an opportunity to withdraw from China for a more pressing engagement. With the backing of Hitler and Mussolini the mikado may feel a return of waning confidence.
At all events, the tension at Tientsin is developing a very interesting situation.

Showdown or Squeeze Play 6/21
IT APPEARS that either the fascist entente has another squeeze play up its sleeve or that the Japanese are seeking a showdown with foreign powers in China.
That's the way we analyze the present crisis in Tientsin.
The crisis bears a "Made in Japan" stamp. It was created by the Japanese government, like so many previous inspired crises, for a purpose.
That purpose can be either: 1. To involve Great Britain in the far east while Japan's ally, Germany, presses for a solution of the Danzig situation in the west; or, 2. To make so much trouble for foreign nations in China, annoying and provoking them just short of the point of open war, that eventually they will give up in disgust and get out of the orient, leaving Japan master of Asia.
There are several indications that the former may be the present purpose. It is no mere coincidence that, at the same time as the Tientsin incident, Germany has increased her pressure and propaganda for the return of Danzig to the reich. In fact Berlin sources openly intimate that the British-Japanese clash in the far east may speed action on Danzig; also intensive troop maneuvers and fortification construction along the Polish border have been started.
Furthermore, Italian fascists hailed the Japanese action against Britain as another phase of the undeclared war being carried on by the triple entente against the empire.
But whether or not there is an immediate entente squeeze play being engineered, the long range aim of Japan to force Britain, France and the U. S. out of China is plain. For all their inconstancy, the Japanese have been consistent in their "Asia for the Asiatics" (which means Japan) program.
For years now they have followed a steady course of pressure against the white races in the orient. And they have become past masters int he art of provocation and insult to test the temper of their adversaries and press within a hairline of the point of open conflict-as witness the deliberate attack on the Panay and many another incident concocted by "those clever Japanese."
That long range program of Japan cannot be stopped except by force, and foreign nations might as well make up their minds that they must either get out of China or fight.
The United States must face that issue. Shall we cooperate with Great Britain in economic or naval war against Japan, or shall we get out of China and let Britain fight or retire? This nation holds the key to the situation. Unaided by America, Britain dare not force an issue with Japan and risk war on two fronts at once.
Japan knows that only too well, and is watching American foreign policy like a hawk.
What will the answer be? Certainly our own interests in China are not worth the price of war with Japan, even though ultimate victory is probable. Is the protection of British prestige and empire and continued dominance of the democratic powers in world affairs worth the price?
That's a hard question. Frankly, we doubt it- but the final decision must be made, not by American newspaper editors, politicians or statesmen, but by the American people.

Miss Cochran Ready To Join Any Ocean Race
MINNEAPOLIS, June 21.- (AP)- If anybody is figuring on starting an airplane race across any of the world's respective oceans, count Jacqueline Cochran in on it.
The woman who outflew every male entrant in the 1938 transcontinental speed event of the National Air Races isn't planning on flying any oceans, she told a reporter, "but if there's a race across the ocean, I'll be in it."
"How about a race around the world?"
"I'll be there," she replied.
Flying here on business- she owns a string of beauty salons- Miss Cochran (Mrs. Floyd B. Odlum in private life) said she was going to Europe with her husband, a financier, soon but, alas, by boat.
"My husband likes to fly but not across oceans so we will go by boat, I'm afraid," she said sort of regretfully.
The European trip, incidentally, will mean she won't defend her cross-country title at the races this year "but next year I'll be racing," she said.