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...willynilly to grant him a license to export airplanes to Spain (see col. 3). The President declared that 90% of U. S. business was willing to give up profits for the sake of preserving absolute neutrality and only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid Congress which last year, in extending the Neutrality Act, refused to grant...
...highest official quarters the pact of Eagle & Lion was said to have been supplemented by a verbal "gentlemen's understanding," not strictly binding, but to the effect that London and Rome anticipate: 1) cessation by the extremely powerful Italian radio station at Bari of its anti-British broadcasts in the languages of the Near East; 2) disintegration of the British ''Mediterranean accords" with France, Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even...
...Shanghai rumor was to the effect that the Government was going to be reshuffled in a Communist direction, with increasingly radical Chinese statesmen being given more and more influential posts. Although Japanese were extremely nervous, watching Chinese developments catlike, their Embassy spokesman in Shanghai said: "I do not think the situation will immediately take a serious turn. Remember that Chiang Kai-shek only got where he is today by pursuing a strong anti-Communist program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist...
...agreement represents a liquidation of the Ethiopian affair rather than the formulation of a new policy by either Italy or England toward the Spanish crisis. Written in very general terms, it can not have great effect because it makes no effort to solve the problems caused by the attitude of great powers to the crisis...
...effect of the Christmas vacation, candidates for the Varsity and Freshman wrestling teams have been slow in rounding into condition, and the preliminary competitions, scheduled to have been held yesterday in the Indoor Athletic Building, for the Brown matches on Saturday, January 9, were postponed until this afternoon...