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Heavy fighting on the four-mile Russo-Japanese front in the Far East (TIME, Aug. 15) continued last week right up to the moment when a truce was made in general terms at Moscow. Its practical details were arranged on shell-pitted Changkufeng Hill by Japanese Colonel Goro Cho and Soviet General Grigory Shutern...
Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...
...reach a truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should in fairness consist of one Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before...
...truce simply provided that the two armies "cease all military action on August 11 at midday, local time." According to official Red Army communiques from the scene, this left a Japanese force extending 650 feet into what Russia considers Soviet soil and a Soviet force extending at a different point 980 feet into what Japan considers Manchukuoan soil...
...Worked closer to a truce with the utility industry. First, Mr. Douglas and five utility magnates, headed by James F. Fogarty, president of North American Co., discussed the question of whether the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said yes. But the two got along well enough for SEC to announce progress toward "a harmonious relationship." Few days later, Chairman Douglas published a statement in The Annalist offering SEC's help in whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends...