CHINA: Magna Charta

Chang Tso-lin, ontime "King of Bandits," Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai — beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights."

His warm admirers and follow...

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