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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried scraps of food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight. More trains came in. He ordered them not to stop, to clear out. "But where to, with this cargo?" asked the engineers...
...One of the oddest diplomatic rituals in the world is the annual negotiation for fishery lease agreements between Japan and Soviet Russia. The talks begin in November. Everyone knows how they are going to come out-as they always have, with a compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters...
...last week, when the annual talks began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post the day Japan agreed to a truce in the Outer Mongolian border fighting-after Russia had trounced the seatful pants off the Japanese Army. He was in a position to dictate...
...proving rather a rag. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...
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...