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...force the Great Powers to concede that the war is over-which it is not-and to give them incentive for recognizing a new Chinese Government, the Japanese Government announced through Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Fleet in China, that the Yangtze River will stay closed to all except Japanese and Chinese trade "as long as fighting continues."Thus Japan bolted the already slammed Open Door (TIME, Nov. 14). Vice Admiral Oikawa blandly admitted that the interior of China swarms today with Japanese traveling salesmen and contractors of all sorts, claimed they are all accredited...
...Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January 1939, unofficially that Halifax...
...every subscriber, and the Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook...
...comparatively new and far more sedate Telegraph building is only a few doors from the Express. Fleet Street wags have compared them to a stockbroker taking his mistress to dinner...
...Navy, repair ships should be brought up to date; a large minelayer is urgently needed; the submarine fleet should be increased from 56 to 80; promotions should be reconsidered...