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Figures. Meanwhile in London and in Washington the first official figures on recent munitions shipments emerged. Amounts seemed unusually modest. President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade announced that between November 1933 and March 1934, Bolivia had bought 101 machine guns, 85 wheels for mountain artillery, various other odds & ends. Paraguay bought 5,000,000 rifle cartridges. Peru, which last week agreed to drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further...
...said Mr. Runciman, "that : another question. We must have notice of that...
...Japanese juggler in any U. S. circus was last week keeping aloft a variety of balls, plates and fiery sticks more dexterously than Koki Hirota, Japan's Foreign Minister. In Britain President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman could devote his entire time to the trade war he had declared against Japan. In Geneva a League of Nations strategy board could concentrate on a proper reply to the Japanese charge of League interference in China, in Nanking the Foreign Office could give its undivided attention to the new Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China...
Trade War. Aiming at Japan, Mr. Runciman announced last week that imports of foreign textile goods to Britain's Crown colonies would be limited henceforth to the average amount imported irom each country during the years 1927-31. While statisticians with slide rule and pencil last week figured out these quota restrictions, it was a fact that exports of Japanese cotton goods to all countries rose from 1,413,480.000 sq. yd. in 1927 to 2.090,228,000 sq. yd. in 1933 and surpassed the total British exports of cotton goods for the first time in history. Though tariffs...
...cotton from India Last winter British, Indian and Japanese cotton manufacturers met in Simla, patched up a peace for India. A further cotton conference began in London on St. Valentine's Day. It failed to settle the question of Japanese exports to the world at large. Mr. Runciman's manifesto on quotas followed...