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Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...Stimson Doctrine" of simply not recognizing that Japan has made a great conquest in China and dominates Manchukuo (TIME, March 28, 1932). According to Señor Cantilo this Stimson Doctrine could well be applied today not only to Manchukuo but also to Ethiopia -its great attraction to harassed statesmen being that it enables them to give an imposing name to doing nothing and omitting year after year to make up their minds...
...flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable and moving ever made before the League of Nations. Yet it was totally without effect on Geneva's sleek, hard, slippery statesmen...
...sacrifice each of them would have to make when war was begun, the terrible menace which threat ens us all today could be warded off. "The problems that distract Europe to day should not be left for soldiers to decide. . . . They should be tackled now by the statesmen...
Canal would ultimately devolve upon Egypt. Said Egypt's Premier, after receiving Sir Miles: ''Everything is going well." Few weeks ago the treaty negotiations were "nearly wrecked," according to Egyptian statesmen, by British Cabinet demands made at the insistence of the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime British War Minister. These "extreme and humiliating demands on Egypt," a member of Premier Nahas' entourage beamed last week, "the British have now dropped...