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That was beside the point, snapped the Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked...
...Generalissimo Franco, still holding a grudge against Britain and France for their long refusal to recognize his Government, snubbed British and French commercial agents, although what Spain needed to recover was trade and more trade. The French sent their distinguished soldier, 83-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, to deal with the reluctant Spaniards, but even he had to cool his heels while waiting for audiences with Spanish officials...
Then Great Britain offered its "good offices." Upshot was that last week Marshal Pétain entertained at luncheon Spanish Foreign Minister Juan Beigbeder y Atienza and a French delegation of commercial experts, let it be announced that Spain and France would sign a trade agreement early this week. Strangely enough, Foreign Minister Beigbeder's father was a German, his mother tongue is German and he was once Spanish military attache in Berlin...
...Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women of all classes are welcome, sits nowadays clicking her needles benignly amid an assortment of serving maids, duchesses, peasants' wives, princesses, cooks...
Orson Welles (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS), No. 1 U. S. Bogeyman, as radiominous Cap tain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty...