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...department stores and the parceling out of their different departments to small merchants: these are but three pledges mouthed at Nazi mass meetings. More basic are the Party's pledges to "scrap" the Treaty of Versailles and pay not a pfennig more in Reparations-but all German statesmen have those aims...
Stimson et aL Efforts by neutral statesmen of all sorts to end the Leticia trouble have been ceaseless since it began. Diplomatic notes have piled up in bales at Lima and Bogota. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Stimson rapped Peru over the knuckles with a 2,600-word note, sternly pointing out that even Peru admits the validity of the Saloman-Lozano Treaty and that should Peru use force to hold Leticia she would clearly violate her pledge under the Briand-Kellogg Pact...
...possibly destined to mediate between China & Japan. Despite his own disclaimer, Tuan Chi-jui is not without ability nor undeserving. Convinced that Japan & China must sooner or later become reconciled, Tuan has headed all these years the so-called "Anfu Clique," a group of second-string Chinese statesmen who have kept up cautious contacts with Japan...
...Japan for seizing Manchuria and branded "Manchukuo" as a mere name coined by Japan to strengthen her pretense that Manchuria spontaneously revolted from China. It was War Minister Araki who brushed aside the Lytton Report as "an interesting travelogue." It became just that in Geneva last week as League statesmen drafted a resolution under which the League Assembly would virtually abandon any attempt to enforce the Lytton findings, thus bowing to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor"-i. e. to Japanese threats of withdrawal from the League...
...last week but last August. News of their plot was hushed by the Government, carefully saved for a purpose. Possibly the Government also had something to do with springing the "revelations" concerning U. S. Minister Johnson. To the Japanese masses these shocks were real last week, but to Japanese statesmen they were convenient. Premier Saito, who was not assassinated last August, is now trying to jam through the Japanese Diet which recently reconvened (TIME, Jan. 2) bills covering Government expenditures so stupendous that the Japanese people will only accept them if they believe Japan's very life...