Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China." As taken by Latvia's Munters before the League Assembly and promptly voted by 50 unanimous ballots, with Poland and Siam abstaining, the motion directs League member States who are signatories to the Washington Nine Power Treaty (namely Belgium, China, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Japan and the U. S.) to invite the U. S. and "other interested powers" to a Far East Peace Conference-this invitation being promptly accepted last week by Washington. Dependent upon Belgium's permission, the Conference was scheduled to meet in Brussels...
...United Kingdom it would be good "dollar diplomacy" to join an economic boycott of Japan sure to benefit Britain's depressed textile industry, now hamstrung by Japanese competition, but as the London Daily Express asked: "Are those demanding Sanctions against Japan prepared to go to war to enforce them?" Mr. Roosevelt can figure on trying to "quarantine" only Japan, but should Britain fall in with this she may find the logic of her League connections driving her to also "quarantine" Italy and perhaps every other nation which has intervened in Spain or sent its nationals to fight there...
...hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
...echo which parroted him, always a phrase behind), are the Totalitarian State, "a transient affair," and the rise of the underprivileged classes, "born of the gospel of Christ.'' That the latter has often gone astray. said the Bishop, should not blind Christians to the fact of the Kingdom of God "... a free fellowship of the children of God ... in [which] every child of God has worth which transcends any economic order. He is not a mere cog in a great industrial machine, his labor a mere commodity. In the vision of God, riches and power count nothing...
...preparing to deal with the affairs of the Kingdom of God, the General Convention, whose deliberations were to last a fortnight, took its time getting down to business. Bishops and their wives dressed up in their considerable best to dine formally at the Netherland Plaza. Members of the General Convention's lower legislative house, clerical and lay deputies, gazed appreciatively at such convention exhibits as the handsome trailer which is host Bishop Hobson's Cathedral (TIME, April 19), the posters and photographs of the zealous, two-year-old Church Society for College Work, the "barracks" of the hardworking...