Professor Heather Streets-Salter at Northeastern University gave a talk titled “The Chill Before the Cold War: The Roots of Anti-Communism in the Interwar Period.” As someone who is not a history buff this title was slightly confusing, however, she was nice enough to give an alternate title for those of us not as historyoriented, “The Noulens Affair in 1931 Shanghai.” This title made a little bit more sense to me. To start, Professor Streets-Salter began by explaining the affairs that went on in Shanghai in 1931 that essentially centered around two people: Ducroux and Bassa. They were arrested for assisting in the management of an unlawful society (the Malayian Communist Party). At this point in time, communism was a significant threat to already developed and developing countries around the world. When they were arrested an address book was recovered that led colonial authorities to Ducroux’s contacts all over. In Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Police hit the jackpot- they discovered the links between Moscow and Shanghai, and Shanghai and Southeast Asia via Hong Kong. It led to 276 arrests and confiscation of significant amounts of communist literature. This was a big deal at the time and created international uproar. Many of the people arrested were using aliases and no countries knew their actual origins.