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...there is an important difference. Mr. Brody relinquished the front pages on his third attempt, and even the barrelleers were only good for five. When naivete has followed in the exodus of the earlier colonial virtues, possibly witless aeroplane maneouvers will join their predecessors in silence, and the native yen for high romance will undergo an advertising catharsis into more lively and less hazardous channels...
...Oriental haggle between Russia and Japan over the Chinese Eastern Railway reached the price stage last week. With Russian and Japanese troops massed near the border, the shadow-boxing stage seemed to have ended. The Japanese offered 80,000,000 yen (about $19,000,000). Russia fixed its asking price at 300,000,000 gold rubles (about $153,000,000). Japan was anxious to prolong the haggle as long as possible, believing that the longer Japan waits the cheaper the railway will become. It proposed a three-party commission to meet in Tokyo. On it Russia will have one vote...
...Japanese regard Manchuria as the life line of Japan. That is a pair of words frequently heard in Japan, 'life line.' Manchuria is Japan's first line of defense. . . . We sacrificed 100,000 men and two billion yen to get it back from Russia-that may not seem like a lot of money to you in this rich country, but it was a staggering burden to Japan at that time...
...said, on the recommendations of the League Committee of 19 (TIME, Feb. 27), recommendations which include withdrawal of Japanese troops from territory they have seized and nonrecognition by League countries of Japan's puppet state, "Manchukuo." Before a vote was taken Chinese Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today!" Suddenly and significantly up popped Foreign Minister Dr. Zaunius of Lithuania...
...stupendous obstacles (Chinese as well as Japanese) to any effort to bring peace & order into the Far East. On the other hand, as Genevans pointed out last week, the Assembly's action is a potent fact. "It is," cried China's exultant Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen, "a verdict of Guilty against the misguided leaders of Japan. ... It is a crushing but fair verdict, a terrible but just indictment...