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...They bring chaos and disunity into sovereign nations and then seize and dismember them. They send their agents to spy upon us. They organize Bunds to spread their vicious doctrines in strident contempt for our Democracy and its institutions...
...Japan has acted like a sovereign in China, laying down new law on her own authority only. "This Government does not admit . . . that there is need or warrant for any one power to take upon itself to prescribe what shall be the terms and conditions of a 'new order' in areas not under its sovereignty and to constitute itself the repository of authority and the agent of destiny in regard thereto...
...about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January...
Since the Houses along the river have been built, the University has virtually a Maginot line of defense against invaders of sovereign Cambridge territory...
King Winter has seized the diadem. He now reigns supreme in all his white, icy glory. But with all due respect to the sovereign, some of his actions are proving most perilous to his reverent subjects in the University...