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On a railroad bridge near Mukden, Manchuria, which was guarded at the time by Japanese soldiers, the great, barbaric Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin died when his armored train was dynamited (TIME. June 11. 1928). Because he kept 20 wives, quaffed tiger's blood as an invigorant. and hewed off heads with a sort of Robin Hood justice, the world remembers Chang. Today his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, is the none-too-strong-or-smart Governor of Manchuria, but of course he had sense enough last week to banquet regally the Rockefeller scion who side-tripped to Mukden en route to Kyoto. No Chinaman doubts that Old Chang's death was ordered from Tokyo. Certainly it was opportune for the national policy of the then Japanese Prime Minister, General Baron Giichi Tanaka, who died last month (TIME, Oct. 7). Last week in Kyoto all the old circumstantial evidence of Japan's guilt was hashed up by shrill Chinese Delegate Yui until the Japanese delegates grew livid and U. S. Delegate Greene thought it best to push through a ruling that this particular dynamite should be exploded not in the open Institute session but at a secret round table.
Shibusawa's Broadside. Citizens of the U. S. would do well to heed Nippon's grand old philanthropist. Viscount Shibusawa when he speaks, even unofficially, for Japan. In business and socialite circles in Nippon his prestige is almost viceregal. Founder of many a ginko (bank), including Tokyo's Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank), he is "The Morgan of Japan." As Honorary Chairman of the Institute, though not present in person. Viscount Shibusawa caused to be read the following statement: "The controversy arising from American immigration legislation* is not closed. The wound so needlessly inflicted on our national honor is still open and will remain open until the matter has been rightly settled.
"I think it necessary to make this plain statement because there seems to be an impression in America that the incident is as good as forgotten in Japan. This erroneous impression is doubtless due to our courtesy and reticence on this subject in conversing with American visitors."
Soother Shotwell. When the say of China's Yui and Japan's Shibusawa had been said Instituters got down to discussing their first vital topic: whether or not industrialization of the Orient is leading to a decay of Eastern culture. It was soothing to hear Columbia University's stocky, broad-mustached, conciliatory Professor James T. Shotwell, Chairman of the Institute's Permanent Research Committee, proclaim: "Oriental culture is not in danger. . . . Science is the ART of the West."
Major proceedings of the Third Institute will focus on the economic, social and political aspects of the present unprecedented migration of 1,000,000 famine-stricken Chinese per year into bounteous Manchuria. On this subject alone Soother Shotwell and his researchers have compiled 17 volumes of spandy new statistics. Also there will be debated whether the Pacific Powers need a separate Peace Pact.