The Archive · 1937

An Eastern Tour

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"Communism In Asia-—By Wil Debts and the Derby:

Having had it impressed upon her that in order to understand the Eng Mish character it was necessary to see the Derby, the pilgrimage was duly made, and' the visitor was, if not impressed, supplied with plenty of material for her diary.

The practical common sense of the diarist is as evident as her lively imaiination—so she envies Englishmen for their pockets, bemoaning the absence of*them in the European garb which she was compelled to wear according to the prevailing fashion; she sympathizes with Englishwomen for the discomfort of enduring the convention which insists that they should pass out of the room before the men: and in a hundred other ways. she finds a text for vindicating the rights, of her sex no less than the require. ments of a comfortable, frictionless Goss Balnburgh "ilowse "Press, "London.

During the autumn, winter and spring of 1935-8 Mr. Paton travelled fiom England through America and Canada and visited' Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, the Straits Settlements, Java, India, Egypt and Pale-tine. His immediate object was to discuss with representative Christians fof the Indigenous churches and with missionaries the plan which had been outlined for holding in Hangchow tu the autumn of 1938 on International Missionary Council. In the course of his journey Mr. Paton turned his powers of observation and experience fe good account by writing notes of his impressions and thoughts on the situation with which he was confronted as he passed through the Far East. On the basis of those im-

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