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Along the southern borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...
...reaching the Royal Palace General Antonescu began a series of showdown sessions with His Majesty which left both of them scarcely a wink of sleep for 48 hours. It is hard to pry an obstinate king in the prime of life off even a shaky throne, and Red Dog, between irate sessions with His Majesty, conferred with Rumanian leaders of all parties and groups -Peasant, Liberal and Iron Guard-as well as with the diplomatic representatives of Hitler and Mussolini. The German Minister conferred with the Russian Minister. Stress tugged at counter-stress, hypocrite smiled on hypocrite, the mob howled...
...peon army was temporarily demobilized at week's end, it looked as though the decks were being cleared for action, and Mexicans awaited Sept. 1, when the public proclamation of two Presidents should bring a showdown...
Last week Turkey was worried by a German White Book involving her in an alleged Allied plot to bomb the Baku oilfields, more worried by the fact that the Russian press seemed inclined to believe Germany's story. Turkey expected a quick showdown on The Straits, with Germany conniving or otherwise occupied. Putting up a brave front, Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, who may soon lose his job on Molotov's demand, entertained patrons of the Karpitch Restaurant in Ankara by kicking up his heels in his famous acrobatic zeybek folk dance, with which he used...
...York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...