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...whose friendship she would most desire in the event of a Russo-Japanese conflict, Britain and the United States. The attempt to placate England took the form of agreeing to limit her exports of cotton goods to India and making concessions in order to secure the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Yesterday the United States was tackled, when the Japanese offered to discuss the naval ratios which may be revised when the Treaty of Washington expires in 1935; this, of course, gives her a quid pro quo, for in return for a free hand in the Far East, Japan...
...desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...
...market. The Italian outburst is typical of world feeling toward Japan; England, seeing her textile market in India ruined by the infiltration of Japanese goods and Lancashire weavers jobless by the thousand while Japanese cloth undersells British in Manchester, is sufficiently alarmed to talk seriously of abrogating the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty; in France and the United States sentiment is the same...
...pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause bonds hoped that last week's decision will help them when their suits come up in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Commons- ¶Weighed every carefully chosen word uttered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as he consented to allude...
...Abyssinian delegate had to consult his government, but representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Union of South Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan confidently endorsed the African conservation treaty drawn up last month at their London conference. Last week the conference's U. S. observer, Chairman John Charles Phillips of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, forwarded the treaty to the U. S. State Department for its information. U. S. big-game hunters, trophy dealers and cinematographers scrambled among themselves for copies of the text...