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...archenemy; still later to Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor of Hongkong to wait for bids and inspiration...
Terms of the arbitration formula applied chiefly to how to stop fighting. A neutral military commission was appointed to survey the actual position of the armies on their 530-mile front, to set the armies back from it. Firing was to stop when the commission arrived at the front. A twelve-day truce was to be extended again & again as required. Armistice begins when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will...
...hrer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign. Scratch their heads as they would this week, most neutral European statesmen could see no reason why Germany should not be anxious to sign, unless she in fact is harboring aggressive designs...
...criticisms were more applicable to Britain's discredited metal "catkin" than to GE's innovation. The catkin's steel jacket served "Is an electrode; in the new tube the jacket is simply a shield. Philco was still convinced that "Proven Worth" is preferable to "Risky Experiment." Neutral radiomen found something to say on both sides, felt that only time and the lordly verdict of the buying public would decide whether glass or metal would emerge...
When the United States refused in 1919 to join the League of Nations, its refusal had positive as well as negative implications. Our insistence on full neutral rights would, of necessity, have conflicted with the projected League policy of blockading aggressors. It was this possibility that caused English support of the League to cool and in particular explained her refusal to sign the guarantee treaty desired by France at that time. The present crisis, which may force the British into a more vigorous stand, coupled with a possible change in American policy (foreshadowed by some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements...