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...meetings of this Committee in Geneva, meanwhile, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia had opposed as "premature" a backhanded suggestion by British Captain Anthony Eden that each Committeeman say whether his Government thought the problem of exportation of arms had yet been raised by events in the Far East. In other words: "How about declaring an arms embargo against Japan or China or both?" Excitedly in London the Chinese Legation at once protested that the Great Powers would be helping Japan if they declared an embargo against both countries, since Japan is already so much better armed than China...
...Nineteen by proposing that the League Assembly (expected to meet this week or next) should declare not only for nonrecognition of Manchukuo by any League state, but should back this up by a declaration of noncooperation by League states with Manchukuo. In a strong speech British Delegate Captain Anthony Eden urged the Committee to urge the Assembly to declare "essential" the nonrecognition of Manchukuo...
...Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...
BRED IN THE BONE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan...
...Jumblies' habitat are detective stories about human beings. Writers of detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...