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Discussing the attitude of the United States toward any agreements arising out of the Far Eastern conflict, President Lowell declares in the leading article of the current number of Foreign Affairs that the interpretation placed upon the Pact of Paris by Secretary Stimson's note of January 7 to Japan, "If generally accepted, might make the relation of states more uncertain, more full of danger than if the Pact has been unsigned...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...diplomacy involved and its pessimistic prophesy for the future degeneration of the League are careful and thorough, the article's greatest importance lies in a penetrating criticism of the legal aspects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and a presagement of international instability as a consequence of Secretary Stimson's January 7 letter, advocating the annulment of all treaties exacted by force...
...tenth State to ratify the Federal Constitution.† Last week it was the first State to ratify what is likely to become the 20th Amendment to that Constitution. Prodded into speedy action by Senator Carter Glass, it did not wait to be notified officially by Secretary of State Stimson that Congress had put this newest Amendment up to the States. Last week Mr. Stimson was still waiting for the Government Printing Office to turn out 48 copies of the Amendment to be signed, sealed, red-taped and distributed among the States...
...Versailles (which France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...