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...This act of state by the King eclipsed in importance anything his Cabinet or Premier have yet done and was fully approved afterward by the Belgian Parliament, press and public. Thus King George is to be honored in Buckingham Palace this week by a state visit from a constitutional sovereign whose powers are real...
...China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels on Oct. 30 and to have the Belgian Government send out the invitations, not only to signatories...
...meat and drink and some food for thought. It was distressing to Penn men to be reminded that their university, which boasts nine firsts* and over 15,000 students, ranks sixteenth in U. S. university endowments.† To alter this state of affairs, Penn's President Thomas Sovereign Gates was thereupon launching a drive for $12,500,000 more endowment...
...last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool...
...because of New York's statute of limitations. The bank won in the lower court, lost last week in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled Judge Thomas W. Swan: a statute of limitations cannot be invoked against the U. S. Government; to permit it against a sovereign foreign government would be to deny its sovereignty; therefore Russia's claim was adjudicable; therefore that claim can now be prosecuted...