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Observers interpreted last week's raid as a feeler. If the world grew incensed at this invasion of Chinese territory, Japan had an excuse: there was a riot, she had landed troops to suppress the riot. If the world, as it seemed to, overlooked it, Japan could try again...
...weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
Even those who cannot suppress a smile at these methods admit that the end justifies the means. It is admirable for Harvard to contribute money to tide ever some of the fourteen hundred families in Cambridge who are without means of support. But it should not stop with the assumption that money is the only contribution it can make. It should have enough respect for its own mental abilities to take part in a program for permanent economic betterment. What money it does give should be spent as the Cambridge Unemployment Relief so wisely suggested as last night's dinner...
...deny in anything he has said that he was speaking for Labor. We have known him until recently as a House of Commons man. He is now an Orders in Council man. This is more than an economy bill. It is a bill to suppress the Opposition, silence the minority and make a mere mockery of Parliamentary Government...
...means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp Hill meeting was instigated for economic reasons and that white landowners had ordered it broken up to suppress the idea of a sharecroppers' union...