Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aggrieved must have been U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson, whose whole career has been spent in China, save when he served in the Far Eastern section of the State Department, who knows China from Szechwan to Kirin (California to Maine) and speaks Chinese as fluently as he speaks English. For he had long advocated giving China an embassy. Only consolation he had last week was that he would probably be upped from a $12,000 ministership to a $17,500 ambassadorship...
...nobly-worded communiqué, he and Stalin invited Eastern Europe to a multilateral pact of nonaggression, consultation and nonassistance to an aggressor...
What he wanted to remember was the modern might of Soviet Russia. Allied to that, France last week had a rejuvenated power in Eastern Europe. It has re-secured its hold on the Little Entente, which has lately been looking toward Germany and Russia with sidelong interest. First of these to fall in line was Czechoslovakia, which last week signed with Russia practically a duplicate of the Franco-Russian Treaty of Mutual Assistance, with the proviso that neither is bound to assist the other if France does not. Furthermore, France has checkmated Germany for the present. And it has dislocated...
...Litvinoff over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that both Germany and Poland have unsettled quarrels...
...Pacific crews rowing will be University of California at Berkeley, Washington, and the University of California at Los Angeles, while the other eastern representative may be Yale, Pennsylvania, or Cornell. Princeton has been sounded out, but is unable to send a crew...