Word: cedes
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Snake's Egg. Plaintive voices were raised in Tokyo against Anglo-American belligerence. Foreign Minister Matsuoka, holding interviews twice a day, discovered that Great Britain and the U. S., Australia and The Netherlands Indies, were trying to "encircle" Japan. He even suggested that "the white race cede"; 1,200,00-mile Oceania, the islands of the south Pacific "to the Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain...
...Rumanian Government was reported willing to cede a "narrow strip" of Transylvania northwest of the Transylvanian Alps to Hungary; Germany had reason to believe that it had achieved a clean sweep in Rumanian internal affairs, at least as of last week...
Angela Coyle Kaufman, divorced wife of the late American Razor Co. President Joseph Kaufman, who threatened to cede her "Castle" in Newport, R. I. to Negro Cultist Father Divine last July if she was not granted a liquor license (she can now get one), offered the stone mansion as a potential night spot to Manhattan Night Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley. Said cautious Impresario Billingsley, who has two going concerns in Manhattan (Stork Club, Nine O'Clock Club) and who knows the potentialities of a nightclub in stuffy Newport: "I'm considering...
...peace conference at Versailles brought the threat of the big powers forcing The Netherlands to cede to a reconstituted Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety...
...demanding Tunisia, Corsica arid a few other choice bits of French territory, Il Duce gave the Premier his big chance to regain his fast-dwindling popularity. The Premier answered the Italian campaign with a triumphal tour of Corsica and North Africa. Returning, he declared categorically that France would not cede one inch of her territory. The French people slapped their chests with satisfaction...