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...Emerson '21, assistant professor of Government, and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics conducted a discussion of this problem last evening at Phillips Brooks House. The meeting of the International Council was opened by Dr. Emerson, who gave a short summary of the present conditions and settlement arrangement's applying to this international problem...
Efforts to class Negroes of the United States as representing a problem of minorities failed to reach settlement among the members of this Brooks House meeting...
...British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native city of Shanghai. He pointedly observed that the foreign section of Shanghai was already adequately policed, needed no armed reinforcements...
...Thursday night at 11:15 p. m. he began the systematic occupation of Chapei, the Chinese city stretching north of the rich International Settlement. He had in all about 3,000 troops-some 1,200 marines from his ship, some 2,000 of the Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through...
...acts of violence" on the part of both sides. 2) Immediate discontinuance of all mobilization and preparations for war. 3) Immediate recession of combatants of both nations from points in the Shanghai area wherein there were places of mutual contact. 4) The establishment of neutral zones in the International Settlement which would keep the forces separated and thus protect the Settlement. 5) Commencement of negotiations, following acceptance of the first four points, to settle all differences in accordance with the Kellogg Pact; this to be accomplished with the assistance of neutral and impartial observers...