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...meets every moral requirement, of course, but will do little to keep America out of war. If the war spreads to Europe and blockades are established, there is as much risk in shipping a barrel of oil or a bale of cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden, and it is the duty of Congress to put this through in a manner different from the present half-hearted and controversial measure...
...those three countries wished to sell goods in the country which was being blockaded, unless they advised their subjects that they were not to trade with that country, with every shipload of goods they sent there would be a real risk of war with that country...
...they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans. These peoples arrived by the shipload, were quartered in agricultural camps, given free housing, free water, free wood, free medical service. In spite of small wages it was a beneficent system?too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms, and the Filipino who irrigated the sugar-cane...
Purporting to be a photographic record of the latest Buck expedition to gather a shipload of creatures for the St. Louis Zoo, Wild Cargo is hardly more than an adroitly staged, carefully written continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which...
...Japanese immigrants were still welcome in Paraguay last week. A shipload of them arrived in Asunsion on their way to dig cotton plantations out of the forests of Eastern Paraguay not far from a similar settlement of White Russians. The Paraguayan Government demanded only one thing: Should the present tide in the Chaco war turn and Bolivia start to invade Paraguayan territory, the new immigrants must serve in the army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold...