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...went into bankruptcy last December. Borsig was a substantial creditor of Motorenbau and its own creditors sought to collect. Hard-pressed for cash, Junkers entered into long negotiations with the hard-pressed Reich for aid. To avoid bankruptcy last week it announced suspension of all debt payments pending court settlement...
Seemingly General Shirakawa thought this "battle" would improve the morale of the Imperial troops. His own state of mind became more & more remarkable. Although the Occidental residents of Shanghai's International Settlement have recently seen whole shiploads of Japanese troops disembark in their Settlement, General Shirakawa took the position last week that all Japanese forces had disembarked outside the Settlement. "The Japanese army hopes," declared the General's official spokesman, "that its sacrificial effort to save the Settlement from gunfire is appreciated...
...Settlement was saved from Chinese gunfire solely by the fact that it harbored so many Occidentals that the Chinese dared not fire for fear of killing U. S. citizens, Britons. French...
...settle a wage dispute on the Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas R. R. Harvey Couch, one of President Hoover's R. F. C. directors, is president of the Louisiana & Arkansas, whose employes objected to a 15% wage cut. To a special board of settlement President Hoover appointed Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Justice Julian H. Moore of the Colorado Supreme Court and Dr. Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...international evils is the existence of indefinite claims that can be used on convenient occasions. Our government will not go to war, and unless under great provocation will not suspend commercial intercourse, as Japan knows full well; but while using whatever pacific pressure it can to obtain a fair settlement, it must ultimately recognize the situation that develops; and, if so, is it not wise to make clear that we do not claim an interpretation of the Pact that, if generally accepted, might make the relation of states more uncertain, more full of danger than if the Pact had been...