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and economically, must provoke profound thought in Tokyo. If that of itself achieves nothing:
Japan still believes she can defy world opinion. Then will be the time to consider what fur- ther steps are necessary to bring her to the knowledge that there are other weapons besides tanks Hong Kong, Friday, October 8, 1937. and long-range bombers, which can be applied to the situation. If we interpret the signs aright, NEW ERA IN FARpeace will come to the Far East
EAST RELATIONS?
Of the completeness of the change in America's Far East
much more swiftly than it was possible to imagine three days ago.
policy, there is no longer room Sterilised" Swearing
for
doubt. The President's speech has been followed by a People who act-and speak- State Department declaration, on the impulse of the moment not merely mentioning Japan will feel a good deal of sympathy specifically- as Mr. Roosevelt with the institution kitchenmaid failed to do but plainly and who at Bolton the other day was outspokenly condemning Japan, the subject of a Public Assistance warning her that it is of vital Committee inquiry. The girl interest to the United States that was so rash as to tell someone to respect for treaties and interna-"go to blazes," and the commit- tional morality be restored, and tee held a discussion as to whe- leaving no doubt that the Unit-ther such language was, or was ed States Government intends to not, swearing. A reasonable. collaborate with the League of view is that although the phrase Nations to the limit of its ability may be, in some mouths, a eu-
The importance of Mr. Cordell
phemism for one still more Hull's statement goes further than its recitation of America's the kitchenmaid was to her cre- shocking, its "sterilisation" by expectations of civilised nations. dit, and should have absolved her The circumstances of its public from the crime of actually swear- ation are a cogent consideration, ing. The expression might be adding immensely as they do to classified with what Mr. Robert its force. President Roosevelt's Graves has called "Cliff Clawson- Chicago speech may be interpretism" a type of sterilised swear- ed as the feeler, the testing of the ing practised by Cliff Clawson, a country's pulse. The State De- partment declaration as a clear indication that the President found the response for which he sought and that the United States Government is acting to- nor (probably) the kitchenmaid day with the knowledge that it considered was that the degree of has the strength of public opin-guilt attached to swearing is ion behind it.
also a geographical matter. Mr. In all fairness to Mr. Cordell Graves mentions the cast of a Hull, it is probably true to say man charged at Hoxton with us that his personal views on the ing language calculated to make correct attitude of the United a breach of the peace who com- Bethnal Green, States towards Japanese invasion plained that at of China have at no time under where he lived, he could have gone any important change. said all that and more with im- With him it has been, largely, a punity. He suggested a swear- question of the degree of uring dictionary for the London gency with which action should district, which should indicate
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character in one of Sinclair Lew-
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Bicarbonate of soda!" sort.
What neither the committee
what you might say where. If
ion, however, under the sway of a national guide of the sort were numerous peace at any price so drawn up the rules for Bolton cieties which put their word in would apparently be pretty strict. first, over the radio and through the isolationist press, American public opinion has lagged far be- hind those in Washington who SATISFACTION GUARANTEED realised that Japan's action was
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