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...Neutral observers could only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed...
With the authority of the recently formed Neutral Bloc behind them, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Denmark's Munch moved that the Ethiopian question be kept on the League's agenda, the Council voted unanimously to postpone further discussion until an extraordinary session of the League, called for June 15. Next day, Benito Mussolini stiffened further. Declining to participate in any discussions, even among the Locarno signatories, until the League should acknowledge the Ethiopian issue closed, he abruptly ordered the entire Italian delegation back to Rome...
...neutral but interested observer of the current Yale-Harvard difficulties we feel that an immediate, amicable solution will be far more worth while than a point gained by either side...
Keynote- Neatly neutral were the balanced social observations in the Episcopal Address or keynote speech representing the mind of the Church's 30 active bishops...
...presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...