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Balkan term for Yugoslavia's long-deferred, long-discussed accord between the Serbian majority and the Croat minority is sporazum. Last week sporazum dramatically demonstrated how much Europe's tension had accelerated the growth of Balkan nationalism despite external pressure, internal dissension. In post-War Yugoslav history the sporazum was blocked by determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities...
Great Britain, in accord with Anthony Eden's dictum to act tough, has lately adopted the Fascist strategy of muscle-making. Most effective display of bulging biceps was the dispatch of hundreds of bombers on nonstop trips to distant French destinations, flights which more than equaled the mileage to Berlin-as British newspapers were careful to point out. Responsible for the flights to France was Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, head of the Bomber Command. Tall, spare, methodical, he is a practiced muscle flexer, for he has commanded the R. A. F. in Iraq and India...
While Germany's representatives in the U. S. spluttered that no statement of condition could be demanded of a sovereign nation, SEC's five members (three Democrats & two Republicans in full accord) enjoyed the well-earned slap which they had given the Nazi face...
...East Asia." It was carefully timed to coincide with the first of Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie's conferences to settle the month-old Tientsin blockade. At the first meeting between the two, Mr. Arita began by asking for an "accord of policy"-I. e., a recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however, they dispensed with interpreters...
...might also add that it is not in accord with TIME'S reputation for accuracy to refer to "Republican Publisher Eugene Meyer." The Post calls itself an independent newspaper and those who work for it, as well as most of its readers, believe that it fully merits the adjective...