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...Conscious that he was about to sound thus the tuba of Empire, Signor Mussolini sought to demonstrate, earlier in the week, that at least he has no designs upon crag-defended Switzerland. Said he to a Swiss newsgatherer: "The Swiss will never have occasion to fear Italy, nor any blow from here, nor any wicked enterprise. I love Switzerland. I have for Switzerland a preference which I have for no other country outside of my own. It is one of my sentimental frailties...
...further reported as having declared that "The political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos. . . . . since it would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living." Mr. Villamin's "deep" study of economics has led him to the conclusion that Filipines most attend to their stomach first before thinking of independence. Yes, indeed! Especially is this true of jelly-fish. And Mr. Villamin ought to know...
...political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos, since it would mean the loss of the tariff protection which Philippine goods enjoy in American markets. This protection is the very life blood of Philippine industry, and its loss would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living...
...break-up of great political units in Europe dealt a heavy blow to international trade. Across large areas, in which the inhabitants had been allowed to exchange their products freely, a number of new frontiers were erected and jealously guarded by customs barriers. Old markets disappeared. Racial animosities were permitted to divide communities whose interests were inseparably connected...
Though U. S. newsorgans headlined THOMPSON NEAR DEATH, it is exceedingly probable that the Chinese dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central...