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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neutrality promised to delay adjournment more than any other subject, and in this fight Filibusterer Pittman. chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was cast for another leading role. Last fortnight the House received from acting chairman Sol Bloom of the Foreign Affairs Committee, prognathous hero of the reception to King George & Queen Elizabeth, a bill drafted in accordance with Franklin Roosevelt's and Cordell Hull's desire for a free hand in case of war abroad. Under it, embargoes of war material would no longer be mandatory. The President would have broad discretion to regulate U. S. exports...
...Conservative and Laborite M. P.'s joined in demanding firm action. There was even talk of retaliation against the many Japanese citizens living in the British Empire, and a Government spokesman broadcast the warning that Britain might be forced into "countermeasures for the protection of British rights." Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax called Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu to his office and gave him the talking to of his life. At Tokyo Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, also protested, conferred for a half hour with Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita on a basis for negotiation of a settlement...
...before words," General Sugiyama (along with others of the military caste) feels himself responsible only to the Emperor. Fifty-nine years old, he was once a military attache at Paris, at another time a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1926. The prattle of diplomats, the explanations of foreign offices, the fine points of parliamentarians are not, however, for him. Last week he bluntly reiterated the Army's price for raising the blockade: Britain's recognition of Japan's Asia-for-the-Asiatics policy...
...general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische Korrespondenz, announced on the heels of the meeting that the Axis would support the Arabs in eliminating British and French influence in the Near East, it was doubly news. For Britain it was alarming...
Last week the French paid the price, and as Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu and French Ambassador Rene Massigli signed Hatay away at Ankara, at Paris French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Turkish Ambassador Suad Davaz initiated a treaty of mutual assistance. Out of the Hatay deal France was able to wangle only a few concessions: minorities who want to leave the territory within 18 months will be able to do so with all their goods and cattle; the northern slopes of Jebel Akra, a mountainous part of Hatay largely populated by Armenians, will go to adjacent Syria...