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While the spirited young Spanish people continued last week to exterminate each other , the Nanking Government of the venerable Chinese people commenced a bribery experiment noble in motive. That stanch Methodist, Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, turned his other cheek toward Mongol and Manchukuoan forces which have been invading Suiyuan, the strategic Chinese province north of the Great Wall. To those invaders who would transfer their allegiance to China, he publicly offered the following bribes, described with cultivated euphemism as "rewards...
...Mongol "irregulars", supported semi-covertly by Japanese planes and arms are attempting to wrest Suiyan Province from Chinese control. Suiyan, although only loosely attached to China in a military and political sense, is directly in the path of communication between Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and China. The intent seems clear; the Japanese are bent upon extending their pincerlike grasp on China...
...Government dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...
That Rumania, ruled by a King who is a Hohenzollern, should ever since the War have been pro-French, has long been a mystery in which the chief political magician looked like a tall, ungainly Mongol with high cheek bones who answered to the name of Nicholas Titulescu...
Ironically at this rearmament Conference, the delegates elected as their secretary obliging A. M. Agnidis of Greece, chief of the League of Nations Disarmament Section. "His leaving Disarmament for Rearmament is just one of those little contradictions which lend charm to life.'' drawled lanky, Mongol-featured Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, provoking the Conference's first laugh. Everyone else was willing to have Conference sessions open to the public, but the 7th Earl Stanhope successfully demanded that they should be secret...