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...three tart sentences just quoted conveyed last week to readers of the Tokyo news organ Nichi Nichi Shinbun a very clear impression of the situation faced by the Japanese Delegation in Geneva. While the U. S. and Britain "struggled," how could their strife be turned to good account by Japanese Chief Delegate Viscount Minoru Saito? Obviously Admiral Viscount Saito ought to cast his influence on one side or the other-after appropriate bargaining. He chose last week the British side...
Treaty at Issue. Strife arose because the British insisted on pushing their thesis that the Washington Treaty of 1922, limiting capital ships of the U. S., Britain and Japan in the famed 5-5-3 ratio, should be modified or at least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British...
...bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland, and never was such protection more needed than last week, when Russo-Polish strife hung in the air. Shelved. The Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon the nearly barren report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Dr. Stresemann commented tartly upon this report last week. Said he: "Solution...
Perfection has almost been attained in the sordid business of making a living. The gifted man need no longer trouble his brain with the vulgar strife of ordinary mortals, he need not even incur the sin of wishing that a wealthy forebear be relieved from the pains of earthly existence. He need only consent to have his name spread abroad in the land on some article of common use and then enjoy the tribute he draws from an appreciative world. Only one difficulty yet remains, he must first go through the difficult, perhaps dangerous, process of becoming a popular hero...
...Sacred Union" Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2 et seq.). The Cabinet has stood unshakable until now, because of its great achievement in rescuing the franc from collapse and more than doubling its gold value. But today, with this crisis passed, and with a general election scheduled for next year, party strife is reviving. The vote last week was on a matter of no intrinsic importance; but it proved, by a count of 265 to 256 against the Cabinet, that Premier Poincaré, though strong, is not unshakable...