Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They agreed on a general program, and on specific features of it, so significant that they made the week's biggest war news. After they were through talking, the Allied Supreme War Council, headed by each country's chief of State and chief of war, held a meeting to ratify the Simon-Reynaud agreements. Within three months, warring Britain and France had reached greater financial and trade solidarity than they reached in three years last time. * Gone was any German hope of splitting the Allies asunder...
Chicago Daily News's Helen Kirkpatrick cabled last week from London: "The decisions reached by the Allied Supreme War Council in yesterday's London meeting may mark the beginning of that federalism which many here and in France believe to be the solution of Europe's problems...
...Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference to settle the last details of the attack to be launched the following day. They immediately concluded that the plan on which they had decided would no longer be feasible...
Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura began to think of a "permanent arrangement." Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called correspondents in to tell them: "We are anxious to settle pending questions and we hope that Russia reciprocates our desire in all sincerity." Domei News Agency, which plays Little Sir Echo to the Foreign Office, advocated concluding a non-aggression treaty with Russia "without paying the slightest attention to displeasure felt and loudly voiced by Britain and the U. S." This week Ambassador Smetanin had an audience with the Son of Heaven, H. I. M. Hirohito...
Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows better than the Chungking Government that the Russian bear has learned how to somersault...