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...attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany but also Japan. Since these two countries are Russia's mortal enemies, Soviet statesmen feared that the bribes might be British promises of aid and comfort should they attack...
...following statement, quoted in the New York Times of October 20, was issued as a warning to European statesmen by psychiatrists holding an annual meeting in the Hague...
...recalled Governor Landon's 25% reduction of State salaries in 1933, headlined: LANDON SAVES $100,000,000. "They are beating a path to the door of the Kansas Governor," cried Universal Service, "who has lifted the burden from his people. Financiers, economists, authors, writers and statesmen have poured into Topeka in endless procession. . . . Taxpayers from the Atlantic to the Pacific have besieged Landon with requests to come and tell 'how Kansas has done...
...universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce to war in Europe. The Dictator pledged, "To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience." This of course was topped with...
...very real" (TIME, Aug. 26), the Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full of apparently chicken- hearted Chinese statesmen who have actually served champagne and drunk complimentary toasts with the Japanese Ambassador while Chinese troops were being mowed down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official...