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Is It to Oil Way for Defence Bill? A Shield Against Peace Groups?
Washington, Mar. 5. Best-informed American observers of foreign policies see three major motives in the violent outburst of anti- Japanese sentiment in Con- gress recently:
1. To get up a head of steama necessary to carry the billion- dollar national defence pro-] gramme through Congress.
2. To reply to the "peaco groups". whose criticism of the rearmament programme been all too effective.
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3. To express again to Japan, not too officially, American die. approval of the closed door in Aala.
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Beyond these coherent objectives HARVARD PUTS WORLD'S
are the personal stands of the prin
cipal spokesmen such as Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
HEAVIEST STAR
too, who represents a Pacific-slope ON THE SCALES
state where anti-Japanese feeling is, strong anyway, and Senator J. Hamilton Lewis (D) of Illinois, who fearaan alliance between Japan and Russia,
All the same, there is to be de teeled a faint strain of regret in some State Department circles that tho Pittman speech Was quite 50 violent in its expressions of distrust of a friendly power. That the State Department does not rise up 08 one man and disclaim the declarations of Congress ranking official in foreign affairs is perhaps the most notable fact in the whole
Incident.
For, while Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, was forced to disavow re- sponsibility for the apecch, he did this BO cautiously that he left the implication of considerable sympathy with the Pittman stand. This im- pression in confirmed by much behind-the-scenes comment of State Department oficials.
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40 MILLION TIMES EARTH'S WEIGHT
The heaviest known star in the cosmos has been measured and weighed at the Harvard College Observatory. It is known as "29 Canis Majoris" in the constellation of that name.
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conference of the nine powers," and and thus obtain their weight. This made is in accord with Newtonian theory announcement, In the
for discovery in which weight is a function of the recently
of two of facts concerning this heavy-gravitational attraction weight champion is given Dr. bodles. Sergei 1. Gaposchkin of the local The larger star of the pair mak-
staff who made a study of several hundred photographa and spectro-ing up the eclipsing system was Cambridge and found to be 40 times as heavy as graphs taken at
the sun and with a radius of 10,- Harvard, Mass,
000,000 miles. The smaller star
By way of explanation, it is has a mass 30 times as great as the pointed out that while "No. 29" is sun and a radius of 7,000,000 miles. the heaviest known star, it is not
The gravitational behaviour was the largest, nor is the matter of which it is composed the heaviest studied through an examination of in the universe a cuble unit. The the changes in light coming from largest, known star in Antares in the stars, and of changes in the Secrpio, 420,000,000 miles in dia-star's spectrum. These changes on photographic meter. Several are now competing were recorded
Floan Good for a Dog One revealing observation was that of an official who said:
"We have to have these jingoistic speeches overy once in a while to counteract the influence of the paci- for honours us the densest, the plates. While the spectrum chan- Sats. Those people are always giving companion to Sirius having been ges have been known to astronomers the first to hold the record with for some years, Dr. Gaposchkin is the impression that we are laying down. We're not. We are a the electrons of its "atar stuff" so the first natural scientist to dis- peaceful people, but at the same time closely packed together an ordinary cover and measure accurately the we won't be trampled upon. The knife, fork and snoon made from light changes and thus to complete редсе people give that Impression, it would weigh approximately two the data needed to fix the size of and we have to go to the oppoalte tons each. Dr. General P. Kuiper the star. extremo in order disabuse Japan.
Heretoforo-only one double star A firmer attitude toward Japan at Harvard is now studying a star, has been discernible in State Depart the matter of which is apparently has been known with a mase ap- times heavier than proaching that of 29 Canis Majoris. ment circles for some time. While neither Secretary Hall nor Norman
This star, AO Cassiopeine, located H. Davis, Ambassador-at-Large now
Un Record For Weight
the "W" of the constellation in London, have publicly allied them- selves with the anti-Japanese group, The star in the news to-day, 29 Cassiopeia, is made up of com It is common talk in diplomatic cir Canis Majoris, is well known to as ponents nearly equal in weight, clus that they are far closer to what tronomers, but the fact that it neither of which, however, le na are "jingoist" than the publle usual.
holds the cosmos record for weight massive as the greater star in 29 is not. It is a very brillant star, Canis Majoris. AO Cassiopolne is easily visible to the naked eye, scarcely visible to the naked eye. located near Sirius, the dog star. Close by is the constellation Orion.
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They sympathize altogether with the big national defence, programme, belloving a strong navy to be neces- sary for prostige purposes, and to convinco Japan that the United States has not become a "decadent nation."
Moreover, a number of technical authorities on the Far East are fairly outspoken in their criticisms of Japan, and their attitude is:
Senator Pitiman may have put it rather bluntly, but there was a lot of truth in what he said"
Such in the mood in most ofcial circles here these days. But exnetly where it is leading is less clear. The Pittman speech wound up with a broad assertion of national policy:
Duty to Protect Citizens "By every obligation imposed upon A government it is our duty, in honour and in good conscience, to defend and protect our citizens and those de- pendent upon us for protection, not only in the far Pacific but wherever they may be
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Apparently this cannot complished through treatles, and it that be 50 then there in only one answer, and that is dominating naval and air forces.”
This "obligation" to protect Ameri- can citizens overywhere is a revival of the "civis romanum sum" doctring: the nation that "the flag follows the trader," and has not been proclaimed so broadly since early Coolidge days.
Change in Public Opinion
It was the general impression of observers that the American people had changed their minds, and were prepared to let foreign trede take Its own risks.
"I deeply regret to be compelled to admit that his suggested cure for war-namely, the enforcement of peace treaties failed to receive of fic'al endorsement."
36,000,000 water.
The diameter of "Number 29" is figured at approximately 4,250 times that of the earth and it is also 40,000,000 times as heavy an the earth, 70 times as heavy as the Also Bun. Dr. Gapoachkin has established for the first time, that "Number 29" is an eclipsing star, composed of two giant heavenly objects revolving around one an- other,
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As they revolve, each is hidden cent, poll in the General Election on TO-MORROW from curthly view at regular inter- Sunday, and no atone is being left vals, a phenomenon which enabled unturned to achieve this end. its mass or weight to be established even though it is approximately
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But Frederick I. Libby, secretary of the National Council for Previn- tion of War, to-day sought to put Senator Pittman in still farther dif
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Polling stations have been establish- ed in the smallest villages and ham-
ts, and even in mix-air,
Över a hundred and fifty passengers and crew of the Graf Zoppalin and the Hindenburg, who are undergoing a four-day cruise over Germany, will vote in the air.-Reuter's Bulletin Service.
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Asmara, Mar. 20. The Italians are reported to be "Sonator Pittman advocates pushing on rapidly on the Takazze effect building up our naval and air Betit River front. They are saki to SUNDAY: forces to a point where we can cross the Pacifle and fight Japan for the trave occupied Maitimshet, the scene of a heavy engagement last autumn. sake of our investments in China.
It is stated that the Ethiopians have evacuated the whole of the Temblen region, and that Ras Kassa and Ras Imru, with the remainder of their forces, aro now near Gondar
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But Senator Pittman, after a long and favourable quotation from a speech by Prof. Grover Clark urging Collectivo action to enforce the Nine Power Treaty, the Kellogg Pact, and the League of Nations Covenant, "I do not believe that this particu-
lar motive for spending further Router. said:
billions annually on our military
ITALY'S ATTITUDE forces will commond itself to the American people when thoroughly
Rome, Mar. 20. understood. Our people are whelmingly and enthusiastically in It is stated that Italy has not made The implication was that Senator favour of staying out of foreign the withdrawal of sanctions a con- Pittman favoured uno of force to wars, whether in Europe or in Asia.dition for negotiation of a settlement soply
peace treaties, and Senator Why is Senator Pittman attempting of the Ethiopian dispute, and William E. Borah (R) of Idaho was to ride roughabod over this senti- Committee of Thirteen's appeal Is
acceptable In principle. quick to pin him down.
Nevertheless, it is most unlikely If, as chairman of the Senate that military operations will be called Foreign Relations. Committee, he is off until the Fallan Command is na- representing the policy of the Ad sured that the Ethiopians are pre- minimam ministration, that fact ought to be parod to accept Italy's known. If he is not, why does the terms, which is regarded as vary FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street to Administration permit him to mis-doubtful at present-Router.
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