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...plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point...
...restrained protestations, Russia, in the last few days has once again attracted world-attention to the aggrandizement activities of the cocky Nipponese in the Orient. The Muscovites claim that Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...first place, allow men to point out the utter falsity of the "facts" on which the whole editorial rests; headlines in the New York Herald-Tribune for Monday morning read "May Day Mob Beats Official At Melbourne; Polish Police Fire on 700; Tokio Seizes 1200 Reds; Spain Arrests Scores; Racial Strife In Africa; 80 Faint in Berlin Arena; Hyde Park Has Riot," while a front page story calls the New York May Day parade "the biggest communist turnout this city has seen." Your editor must evidently have spent the day in the poetry room of Widener, or perhaps talking with...
While in Japan, Dr. Rowland will work under the guidance of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Imperial University of Tokio, which is the headquarters for the work which is being carried on by the Japanese Government in discovering and preserving ancient works of art on the Islands...
...over their big cities and rain bombs all over them. We'll stir all their cities up like so much curry and rice." Mr. Wing seized a fresh iron and demonstrated with it how, as commander of ten thousand Chinese airplanes, he would sweep down upon Tokio, and swiftly reduce it to ruins...