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...Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that the Chinese author ities must disarm the White guard detach ments and prevent all possible raids on Soviet territory by Chinese forces. Other wise the guilt of further complications caused by new raids will be entirely on the Nanking Government...
...murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns...
...tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
...total disarmament (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927), he was called a hypocrite. When he appeared again, this time with a pact of partial disarmament (TIME, April 2), the Acting Foreign-Minister of Soviet Russia was once more called a hypocrite. Nobody believed that Red Russia would keep a pledge to disarm...
Therefore, contended Herr Müller, the Allies are morally obligated to disarm, too. But they are not disarming...