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President Roosevelt last week significantly let the Munters Committee see his Chicago speech six hours before he made it. The Committee had by this time decided not to brand Japan as an "aggressor" and not to mention "war." Not even the President's candid show of partiality for China budged the Committee from its two nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider...
...moment to be ruled out, for the British Government will have none of it. Without in the least trying to minimize Mr. Roosevelt's speech, the British doubt that the President himself intended to encourage such a boycott when he spoke of a 'quarantine' of aggressor nations. The most that can be hoped for, in the British view, is another of those 'gestures' that have been made so often by this and other nations in the course of Japan's incursions into China...
...reputed future Prime Minister. In League Secretariat circles everyone believes Mr. Chamberlain wants to have eliminated from the League Covenant its three most vital articles: Article X under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made for revision under League auspices of treaties. If these articles were scrapped, the United Kingdom could take an aloof attitude toward war on the Continent, whereas today her obligations under the Covenant make this impossible, and such aloofness would be the first...
Although the industrial recruiter is in a sense the aggressor, the Senior's role is hardly a passive one. The employer's market for apprentices is wide and large, and he comes perhaps to select only one or two men from Harvard. Opportunities from the large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances...
...Alumni Placement Office is frequently asked by local employers to submit Senior applicants for jobs. Here the competition is somewhat less, and because the interview takes place in the company offices the role of aggressor is somewhat easier to play, and is often attended with better success...