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SHANGHAI--Tuesday -- The whole eastern half of China's great fortified Lung-Hai line, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheck's provisional capital at Hankow, was collapsing today under terrific blows from four Japanese armies. All advices agreed the Chinese were losing the greatest battle of the war and that the key city of Suchow-Fu would be fully occupied by the Japanese during this week
Hazard No. 2 was a Senate resolution introduced by North Dakota's Nye suggesting that the U. S. repeal the embargo on shipments of arms to Spain. Passed in January 1937, the embargo has been consistently criticized for doing less to effect U. S. neutrality than to assist Generalissimo Franco, by its disheartening effect on the Loyalist Government. Like the Scott Resolution three weeks ago, the Nye Resolution apparently had the tacit approval of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With the President still off on his fishing trip, Secretary Hull decided to delay his shot-in the form of a note...
...bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would say but the best informed guess predicted a right turn into the racks of Spanish Generalissimo Franco's bombers...
Most of the contributors to Monde Libre's first issue were front-page names: France's Herriot, Daladier, Paul-Boncour, Petain; England's Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill; China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; U. S.'s rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
...Rightist Spain last week, Generalissimo Franco's Cabinet approved a decree re-establishing the Society of Jesus. How many of them were left in Spain, U. S. Jesuits did not know. Whether or not 80% of the Spanish fathers had been killed, as the Vatican reported last year, at least 100 are known to be dead. To U. S. Jesuits this re-establishment seemed to disprove recent rumors that Spanish Jesuits were chafing under the Franco regime, mistrusting his Fascist allies. Nevertheless, such reports have been vouched for in France-where Catholic orders such as Jesuits and Dominicans...