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Adams v. W. P. F. Secretary of the Navy Adams at first observed a strict and silent neutrality toward the Hoover-Gardiner war. Then, suddenly, he thrust himself into a similar controversy, not with the Navy League, but with its antithesis, the World Peace Foundation of Boston. The confusing spectacle was presented of President Hoover battling the Big Navy lobby while his Secretary of the Navy fought the Little Navy group. In both cases the issue was the same "misleading information...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, specializes in Far East diplomacy. His first move was to tell Japanese Ambassador Hirota that "the Soviet Government will follow a policy of strict non-interference in the Manchurian crisis," and to denounce Japan's occupation of Manchuria by implication thus: "The Soviet Government considers that the policy of military occupation, applied under whatever form of so-called protection of interests and nations, is inconsistent with the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union and with the interests of world peace...
...Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news and somehow managed to earn $100,000 a year. Since her husband's death Mrs. Wood had edited the sheet from her apartment, sending and receiving proofs through a specially built pneumatic tube. She kept a strict eye on the accounts, too, and reputedly spent hours cutting open used envelopes which the writers were supposed to use as copy paper...
...Strict stipulation for membership in the "dude" expedition: "Guests must be healthy and they must be men of breeding and education. This will make them congenial. Men of culture are the easiest to get along with in wild country...
What seems an obviously hostile action, and as such war, to common sense cannot immediately be so labelled in international law. Unless the international legal code can be more strictly interpreted, it looks as if a great power could protect its interests by force at least to some extent. Failing such strict interpretation, the rule will hold that instead of two, there must be two equals "to make a fight...