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...extent depending on how much they can afford to spend for them. The second reason is that the United States is one of the powers involved in the government of the International settlement in Shanghai. The Japanese are making it a base for operations against the Chinese. To maintain strict neutrality we must prevent their doing this, and that means a good deal more than we are doing now. Therefore so long as we do nothing, we are really helping the Japanese. There is no possibility of remaining strictly neutral...
...Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing China's integrity. Other nations failed notably to back the Stimson stand, but Kenkichi Yoshizawa returned a soft answer: Japan would never, never dream of annexing Manchuria, and as for the policy of the "Open Door" in China, the Japanese Government promised to maintain it "in so far as they can secure...
...record year), 4.012,000 in 1928. Confronted by an alarming decrease, prophets turned over their problem to statisticians, gave them a basic theory that 21 million cars would continue to roll the roads, asked what 1932's production must be to maintain that figure...
...most marked features in the inadequacy of the Infirmary is the lack of accommodations for the nurses and maids, many of whom are obliged to find rooms as best they can outside. This makes it impossible to maintain a proper supervision and protection...
...emphatic that comment upon it is superfluous. The final estimate of his legal achievements may safely be left to history, by those who prefer rather to recall the personal qualities which gave him his unique place in public esteem. More perhaps than any other man he has helped to maintain the historic dignity of the American bench...