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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North China customs receipts dropped 40% in the past three months, but inter nationally more important was the fresh Japanese threat to British trade and British loans guaranteed by Chinese customs collections. In Tientsin last week was hulking, hook-nosed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...
Down over his impressive stomach huge Sir Frederick gazed at the little yellow...
...small comfort to the average Briton. With his Government launched on an enormous and costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...
Holy Land for three religions and battleground for 4.000 years, Palestine was last week ravaged by new violence. Combatants were Palestine's 770.000 Arabs and 375,000 Jews, with British High Commissioner Lieut. General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope (pronounced "walk-up") the harassed umpire...
...There may have been war in 1839 between Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss, the waltz-king and the brilliant rebel, but that war had more melody and harmony than a hundred years of our stodgy peace. At any rate, open dissension is boiling away at the very moment when Sir Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best orchestra to carry the waltz to England. For this reason, it is two hostile factions that bring the leaping sound to the court at London, and the war continues on foreign soil...