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...White House: "It is the conscience of the civilized world which has answered bestial ferocity." Without designating any particular country, his words are sufficiently explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations, and piracy in the Mediterranean...
...Matter of the Heart!" Thus Hitler and Mussolini were enemies three short years ago. Since then the British attitude on Ethiopia, the French attitude on Spain, have thrown them into each other's arms. "My visit to Germany," read the Italian Dictator's official advance announcement last week, "is wholly a matter of the heart. . . . The two peoples will clasp hands . . . and will march side by side in the future, for this future belongs to us. . . . My visit is a demonstration for a common policy of STRONG PEACE...
Among the 2,000,000 Manhattanites who observed high holy days during the past fortnight were some 600 black Jews in Harlem. Of these a few are converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine...
Since application of sanctions in the case of Ethiopia backfired badly, scarcely anyone now expects the European powers to again use sanctions, unless the U. S. can be persuaded to apply them also. Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had this point well thought out too, suavely demanded that the International Advisory Committee on Chinese-Japanese Conflicts constituted...
...Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging the question of recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and loudly restating their loyalty to the League of Nations. Rumania's Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu went out of his way to state...