The current issue of "Pacific Affairs" is an exceptionally interests ing number and brings that periodical Back to the standards of its earlier days under Mr, Owen Lattimore's editorship. Mr. Guenther "Stein amusingly translates extracts from the Japanese press to throw light on that little-known subject, the domestic interests of the non-political Section of the population. Mr, W. Wynne Williams discusses the settle: ment of the Australian tropics with Courage and gifts of lucid exposition. Mr. Wang Y-Ch'tlan breathes life into the dry bones of the history. of Jand taxation in China and its effect the fate of dynasties, Mr. H. J. Timperley pleads eloquently for telligent censorship of the press the Far East. Mr. A. Arthur Schiller continues his discussion of native customary law "in. the Netherlands East Indies. "The book reviews are excellent, and the policy of the Soviet Union in its new position aya collaborator with the great powers is Succinetly outlined by Miss Harriet Moore. "The German writer, "Asiaticus." analyses the international Fepercussions of the financial recon struction of China and (akes the view that the situation has developed into a struggle between Great Britain and Japan "with "America playing the Reutral observer expecting in due course to be able to guarantee her own position,
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