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Inasmuch as the Gran Chaco peace protocol, ratified by the Paraguayan Congress, and the international South American declaration in 1932 that "military conquest grants no sovereignty," are now part of Paraguay's national law, Franco could do nothing last week but agree to abide by those treaties...
...large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese virtues. If that be radicalism, then the militarists, although they are the world's most violent reactionaries in matters of Japanese Emperor-worship and imperial conquest, are radical...
...seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios will go to the Minseito, nominally a party which views with disfavor further Japanese conquest in Chinese territory...
...gist of the report by Sir John Maffey & experts was that absolutely no occasion would exist for filling the Mediterranean with British forces, even in the event of successful conquest by Italy of Ethiopia. In the dry and dispassionate words of Sir John Maffey & Experts: "From the viewpoint of imperial defense an independent Ethiopia is preferable to an Italian Ethiopia but the threat to British interests seems very remote and would become real only in the event of war between Britain and Italy, which is an eventuality that presently seems very improbable...
Italy's most acrid editor, Giornale d'Italia's super-Fascist Virginio Gayda, cracked: "The wealth amassed by American Democracy was attained with wars of expansion and conquest during which they exterminated all native races. Nevertheless they have not known how to stamp out gangster crimes, and finally Lindbergh, America's national hero, has been obliged to seek safety for his child in voluntary exile across the Ocean." Terming the President's strictures upon Europe a form of intervention in the Continent's affairs, Signor Gayda ludicrously screeched, "Roosevelt's attempt at American...