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Life-&-Death Struggle Sirs: . . . Under the heading "The White Front" (TIME, Aug. 12) we are now told that Dutch editors are speculating on whether some sort of understanding does not exist between the Netherlands Government and British Prime Minister Baldwin. It seems incredible that Dutch editors, or editors of any nationality, could possibly believe that an understanding does not exist. But the Anglo-Dutch alliance is not aimed at Japan. On the contrary an Anglo-Dutch fleet in the South Pacific will prove an inestimable aid to the Japanese in the coming Pacific war. England is playing her usual game...
...compliments to TIME for the excellent article: "I Will Maintain!" (p. 17, Aug. 12), giving readers detailed information about The Netherlands' economics and its wealthy and shrewd queen; the noted statesman Colijn; the possessions in Indonesia which Japan covets; and "The White Front." All very interesting, particularly to those readers who follow foreign events closely...
Whence your information that Charles Francis Adams, Boston sports promoter (TIME, Aug. 19), is "distant cousin of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams?" Look in the graveyard of any Boston newspaper to see if he is not a Jew whose name was changed by court decree, to the disgust of blue-blooded descendants of the second and sixth Presidents...
...Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs, but on the latest Comintern Congress in Moscow, at which U. S. Communist leaders in numbers openly vaunted their Red activities (TIME, Aug. 12 & 26). Ambassador Bullitt first announced that he would be out of Moscow during the Congress, visiting Soviet Black Sea resorts with his 11-year-old daughter Anne. At the last moment he canceled these plans, ably reported on the Conference day by day to Washington...
When moon-faced Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei gave "poor health" as his excuse for resigning (TIME, Aug. 26), correspondents voiced hardboiled doubts that his illness was anything more serious than a case of playing Chinese political possum. This caused Mr. Wang to exclaim angrily: "My illness is very real...