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...Hull made public the "substance" of a statement he had instructed Ambassador Grew to deliver to the Japanese Foreign Office. Politely but forcefully it warned Japan against trying to establish hegemony in the Far East by stubbing other people's toes. The warning: ". . . No nation can, without the assent of other nations concerned, rightfully endeavor to make conclusive its will in a situation where there are involved the rights, the obligations and the legitimate interests of other sovereign states." When on May Day the Japanese Government finally published the Hirota note in Japan, it pointedly ignored Secretary Hull...
Mr.Carnahan in his "Romanticism among the Realists" sweeps us over large areas of contemporary life. "The theory of present day Fascism may be briefly. expressed as the negation of the Democratic principle." We can hardly deny this, and might also assent to the proposition that in order to forecast the future "it would be necessary to subdivide Faseism and Communism into their ideal and practical forms. We should then be able to contemplate the four alternatives in the pure splendor of their conception...
...tariffs by 50% to fulfill the terms of such agreements would not extend to putting articles on the free list or taking them off. He argued that such tariff-flexing was necessary to bargain with foreign nations and to put his bargains into effect without waiting for the uncertain assent of the Congress. He promised that his actions under the proposed law would be carefully weighed "so as to give assurance that no sound and important American interest will be injuriously disturbed...
With the President's assent, he urged that $7,000,000 be added to the State Department's supply bill to relieve foreign service conditions brought about by: 1) the 15% general pay reduction; 2) the 5%-to-6% increase in living costs abroad; 3) the 65% reduction in heating, lighting and rental allowances to diplomats under the Economy Bill. The dollar's decline had been compensated for in foreign service salaries in gold standard countries by paying in gold, but last week, as a final blow, the gold content was officially sliced...
...noble experiment to see whether the rapacity of private lenders could be checked by the State. It could. Under the august patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace, maintains a garage in which 2,000 motor vehicles can lie in pawn, chiefly...