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...coast to coast on the an gets in and out of trouble in the East as well as in the West His adventures know no boundaries. American Racketeers or Chinese smugglers, all are his meat, For that reason another Phi Beta Kappa finds work in radio. She is Betty Ito, diminutive Chicagoan who earned her key at the University of Chicago. Betty is Japanese by ancestry, American by birth, but she plays a Chinese role in Jack Aumstrong's show...
Trampling next on the Geneva concept of League mandates as granted and withdrawable by the League, Minister Ito barked that Japan was one of the Allied & Associated Powers which won the World War. "The situation of the Imperial Japanese Government as one of the powers which distributed the mandates and at the same time as one of the powers designated as a mandatory," he proclaimed, "cannot be affected by the fact that Japan is or is not a member of the League. . . . The real title to the mandate has been vested in the principal Allied & Associated Powers . . . and only formally...
These potent Japanese postulates Dr. Ito drove home with the excuse that Japan had been challenged last week by the Mandates Commission. Some of its more daring members, seeing Italy being jumped on, had ventured to draft questions asking Britain and France why they have not deprived Japan, as a State now outside the League, of trade privileges which only League States are supposed to enjoy with British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria...
London and Paris have not cracked down on Tokyo, as their moral League duty requires, because of Japan's effective Might. At the Commission last week Dr. Ito blazed, "Japan has an inherent Right to equal treatment," with League member States in trade with Palestine, Syria and other mandates...
Since the big League drum of sanctions was being beaten against Italy by British Captain Anthony Eden next door, the Mandates Commission, in a panic lest League prestige be weakened if Dr. Ito's postulates received publicity, hushed everything up last week by agreeing not to discuss them. Also hushed was evidence reaching the Commission that Japan is fortifying her mandated islands in violation of explicit mandate statutes...