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...action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider how far they can individually extend aid to China." As taken by Latvia's Munters before the League Assembly and promptly voted by 50 unanimous ballots, with Poland and Siam abstaining, the motion directs League member States who are signatories to the Washington Nine Power Treaty (namely Belgium, China, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Japan and the U. S.) to invite the U. S. and "other interested powers" to a Far East Peace Conference-this invitation being promptly...
...Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only one piddling 65-sec. affair for the rest of the century. Year: 1963. Witness: New England...
...lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen and Fascist Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano were the principals...
...long time to arrange, yet it might not be long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan's 11,000,000 spindles, was powerful enough in itself to make a binding agreement; 2) that both...
Although admitting that he was no relation to Prajahdipok, who visited the United States in 1933, and just recently abdicated, he professed to be one of his erstwhile loyal subjects. Siam is now ruled by a boy king, Prince Ananda, whose father graduated from Harvard in the class...