Word: truce
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...save Chinese face, no details of the truce were published, and Japanese troops that had been pressing down from the Great Wall made no entry into Peiping. BUT by terms of the ever useful Boxer Agreement Japan has the right to increase her legation guard at any time. At Peiping's Chienmen Railroad Station 600 stumpy little Japanese soldiers detrained from Tientsin, marched through the streets with full equipment to strengthen the guard. Very quickly it became apparent that they would not be idle. Japanese patrols spread through the native city, taking over Chinese police posts, searching houses...
...clattering wooden geta the little old men who act as newsboys in Tokyo ran through the streets last week shouting an extra. It was the first direct word that either Japan or China had had of an event that seeped to the rest of the world several days earlier: truce and cessation of Chinese-Japanese hostilities in North China...
...reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...
...only country to accept the truce wholeheartedly was the U. S. which, making no reservation for new tariffs on processed farm goods, found itself obliged to postpone operation of its acreage leasing and domestic allotment plans for farm relief...
Such as it was however, the agreement was signed. As Chairman of the Economic Conference white-crested James Ramsay MacDonald sent invitations, to the other 58 nations invited to the conference to sign the tariff truce...