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...over whose fields they ride to hounds. Farmers perennially growl that the squires break down their fences, trample their crops. Squires perennially reply that privileges and increased property values pay for the damage they do. Last week this dispute-in England as old as the Norman Conquest-became part of the current U. S. strike rash...
...Paris is indulging in such newsy official leaks, is the quarrel of the two countries over who owns the 15% of the stock in Ethiopia's only railway which Haile Selassie claims is owned by his "Ethiopian Government." Il Duce claims this stock for Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this 494 miles of rail, linking Addis Ababa with the French...
None but Jordanstowners would deplore Author Johnson's humane sentiments, but many from other counties will squirm at the humorless rhetoric she dresses them up in. Unreconstructed oldsters who remembered Booth ("Old Tark") Tarkington's The Conquest of Canaan averred that they still preferred his version of the story...
...disastrous" if a final Spanish White victory should be considered a victory for Italy and Germany without also being a victory for Britain, France and moderate Europeans generally. Stanley Baldwin knows that many of his best friends think he bumbled in not getting Britain in on the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and His Majesty's Government now have a similar "opportunity" in Spain-sine after all the Empire is an imperialist Democracy...
...renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan's politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and War Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi. On the first day of the session last week Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics...