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...resolution calling for "a just, peaceful and prompt solution of the dispute over Belize [British Honduras] between Guatemala and Great Britain...
Britain. In Tokyo, Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani called on British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. He demanded that British authorities in Burma emulate the discretion of their Indo-Chinese neighbors by stopping munitions traffic. The British Government "found it difficult to make a prompt reply." By way of pressure, Japanese troops formed a tight landward ring around Hong Kong. The British prepared to resist. Hong Kong officials, archives and non-combatants were evacuated to Singapore and Manila...
...Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...
...support was prompt and as officers of the Quincy gathered at the Jockey Club for a luncheon given in their honor by Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Guani, American Minister to Uruguay Edwin...
Always under the assumption of the great er power of the defense, the prompt sup port to the Belgians by the Allies...