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...statesmen of Europe hurried toward Geneva this week French battalions poured into the $300,000,000 forts and for the first time they were fully manned. At some points French and German troops were only a pistol shot apart. The price of a Bank of France share fell from 8,700 to 8,200 francs. On orders from Australian League Council President Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the League of Nations' French Secretary General, M. Joseph A. Avenol, telephoned Berlin, inviting Realmleader Hitler to send a German representative to Geneva for the crucial session of the Council...
...young mustards were after still more exalted human game. Their ambition was to machine-gun none other than "The Last of the Genro," or long-venerated Elder Statesmen who were responsible with Japan's late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...
Significance. The great Japanese statesmen killed or attacked last week were all models of moderation, budget-balancing, diplomatic conciliation and PEACE. The significance of the fact that they were attacked is to be found in the exact opposites of all they stood for. The significance is WAR. Neither attacked nor threatened was any "strong" or so-called "Fascist" Japanese. Their names began to appear only when Tokyo's smartest correspondents started guessing who was going to be the next Premier...
...broader significance is the trend discernible in the Church League for Industrial Democracy's actions. In recent years bishops and elder statesmen of such churches as the Methodist and the Episcopal have issued long, vague, liberal pronouncements at their annual gatherings. By last week it was observable that young, zealous churchmen were attempting to put their elders' perfunctory liberal views into what in the churches passes for action...
...several terms offered France by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the two most important are, first, the offer of a 25 year non-aggression agreement and, secondly, the German decision to re-enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members...