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suspicion that the United States may become involved in under- writing, as it were, the British Empire Lord Lothian explains the American attitude succinct- Garrick Street, London, WC2ly in an article in the London “Observer" when he says that while England is popular as a
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Notice To Contriðutora. All communications intended for sane and stable country, Ameri can citizens, there is deep sus- publication should addressed to picion of British foreign policy es being imperialist and cunning. the Editor, and be accompanied hates the idea of one people gov
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BRITAIN, U.S.A. AND liberty, peace, and a civilised
JAPAN
Hong Kong, Friday, December 17, 1937 own history. Resistance to ban- ditry-whether domestic or in- ternationalis a condition of
life. Universal national self- determination spells anarchy and war unless it is balanced by a Japan has anticipated the reign of law under which fron- American and British demands tiers lose their economic import- on the Yangtsze Incidents by ance and there is power both to change the law and enforce it in getting in first with the proffer the super-national sphere. As ing of the full apologies of the she is driven out of isolation by Imperial Japanese Government, the inexorable forces of the mod- ern world, her strength and her promising the punishment of traditions will compel her to those responsible and offering play her proper role. Her full compensation for damage clusions will probably be different and injury. It is satisfactory to from what we now hope and ex- pect But her democratie m- note, however, that the astute dividualism and energy make it ness of the move has not deceiv-certain that in due time she will contribute, and contribute might- ed either. Power into the over-
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Note. It frankly draws atten- Among many weighty pro- tion to the fact that promises blems now exercising the keener intellects of Britain, that of bells have been made not
20 occupies important place. twice before with assurances Bell-ringers are woefully lack- that measures to preserve the ing, as the village of Toller Por- rights of third parties would be corum has recently shown. The question is bound to have re taken, and that the Imperial sounding repercussions. Japanese Government has failed Already it has brought back to live up to its promises. Hence echoes of the relief of Mafeking. the demand that the British Gov-On that momentous day a bell ernment be informed not that which used to herald movement measures will be taken, but what of trains in Harrogate station measures have been taken, a fun- disappeared, and was not hearn, damental difference. America cr heard of, again. A few days goes farther, in requiring the ago Sir Bernard Lomas-Walker personal interest of the Emperor confessed it was he who, în a in the Incidents, on the logical moment of exuberance, removed argument that in view of the the bell from its moorings, on apparent inability of the Tokyo that night of victory during the Government to control the mil-Boer War. The incident has been itary it becomes necessary to closed by the London and North- approach the authority which Eastern Railway Company's pre- has that power. It raises, it is senting the bell to its captor. admitted on all hands, very de Toller Porcorum has excelled licate issues, but there is much Harrogate, because this denght- to be said for the American point fully named village has, actually of view which clearly regards the got its bells back For eighteen Tokyo Government, for the time years these bells were silent, but being, as a sort of local govern the inhabitants of Toller saved ment with the real power in in-up, and with £300 they have had ternational politics vested in the the bells re-cast and re-hung. But nnlitary authorities under the this Dorset hamlet has an in- Emperor. Even with this, how sufficiency of ringers. That should ever, there now seems little real be only a temporary difficulty. prospect of the desired Anglo-Toller should find it easy enough," American co-operation on all of all places, to produce tollers