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conditions and with the enco ement of Brus- sels, the opportunity for deliver- ing the most damaging blow at the outset of the campaign.
Fortunately, no matter what may be the impelling motives behind the stir created in Lon- don, Paris and Washington, there is no fear that the danger will be minimised.
Ito Japan that ain's warning.
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Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 29, 1937
SHANGHAI THE CRUCIAL TEST
demands the
a in any var Customs adminis
followed by simallar Mr Cardell Hull Belbos through their
Imbastadors i Tokyo. Stat serure of the
has kept the diplomatic
res humming between London and Paris and Washington, and a common diplomatic Front
sured Apprehension has, in few hours, achieved more than ethical values deteriorate academic discussion, coni, do the same number of weel indeed, that were the end of the matter we could rest well con- tent. Tokyo's present-day mood, however, is not to be ignored, and the difficulties exposed at Brus sels are not necessarily removed by the development of a new crisis. If Britain's mind seems to be fully made up, the ains a grave doubt wi unfavourable Japanese-
appropriat
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You may strike at Britain's without the fullest co-operation pride with impunity, at least for from the United States. Advices a while, but it is unsafe to med- from Washington on this point dle with Britain's pocket. There are not reassuring. A protest has been sent to Tokyo, but it is not speaks the cynic in reference to known what action, if any, the the situation now developing United States is prepared to take rapidly as a result of the Japan-on receipt of a further Japanese ese threat to seize control of the Sunb. An unsympathetic Con- gress continues to insult the in- International Settlement and the telligence of America's leaders. Chinese Maritimes Customs, and In all this remarkable situation, how close it approximates to the meantime, China's position seems truth may be judged best, per-spectator, undoubtedly there, but to be that of a vague sort of
haps, from the new vigour to be inconspicuous. It is a position, noticed in the official attitude, so too, which she probably wel- soon after the
-
ness of acquie Pless hopeless comes, for in the final outcome of
sels failure.
cence in the Brus-
Shanghai bids fair to provide the crucial test of international
it all, whatever the immediate result of collision, we doubt she can be the sufferer.
tionships in the Far East An Eighth Century
The flimsy pretexts upon wh
the right of dras-Bible
the
tic action the International Settlement, application of At a recent meeting of
Friends of the National Librar force, if necessary,” in the ab- sence of ready obedience to Jap Kenyon, was able
ies their chairman,
anese wishes can have only one present by annou meaning, that Japan, casting off pletion of an en the cloak of pretence is openly has been much pursuing the policy of China for during the past the Japanese Prince Konove, on the purchase for Saturday, with but the thinnest Museum of eleven leaves veneer of diplomatic language, copy of the Vulgate, one of three announced the plan of campaign which were
Pappet administrations, with the joint
Jap
isers in all
pointments, nitimately
tinued
mouth
that
about
The