1919, he was elected Representative of the City of Warsaw and has retained that seat until the present time." "He resigned the Premiership in December 1919. It is rather a testimony to his great statesmanship that he was able to retain that exalted office for eleven months during Poland's first year of independence when she faced numberless internal and foreign difficulties. Later he was made one of Poland's standing representatives in the Assembly of the League of Nations. On resigning that position he was given the standing of Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, which he still retains." Since then Paderewski has again toured the new world receiving artistic receptions even greater than his earlier triumphs. AUTHORITIES "The Real Paderewski" was written for the Etude by its editor James Francis Cooke, February 1918 and published in "Music Masters, Old and New', copyright 1918 by Theo. Presser Co. This February Etude also contains a biographical dictionary of about one hundred noted musicians born in Poland. Of the biographies and appreciations of Paderewski, probably the best that have ever been written are those of Henry T. Finck (out of print), Edward A. Baughan and Alfred Nossig. There is an excellent life in Polish by Opienski, the noted Polish critic. JAPAN AND ITS LEADERS PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC BY JULIAN STREET APANESE history, as taught in Japan, begins as JAP with the Emperor Jimmu (Jimmu Tenno), 660 B. C., alleged to have been a grandson of the Sun Goddess who created everything. Jimmu is therefore counted divine, and as it is claimed that the 123 subsequent emperors are his descendants, they too are regarded as having attributes of divinity. This may not be believed by the more sophisticated and scientific Japanese, but is, I think, generally believed by the masses. The first dozen centuries of this Japanese history is however regarded by cold-blooded historians from other lands as mythology, and the continuity of the Japanese Imperial family is questioned, though it is admittedly the oldest reigning family in the world. From an Occidental standpoint it would be considered that the directness of the line was impaired by reason of the fact that many emperors have been the sons of concubines; but in the Orient a different view is |