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as the picture is, even in this situation it might conceivably be possible for the authorities to adopt measures which would minimise the con- sequences. But the very re- verse attitude appears to have been adopted, and Chiese milit- ary activity reported include the of despatch of four divisions Chiang Kai-shek's own crack corps along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and mobilisation of the ications intended for entire Chinese Air Force.Japan pibliation would be addressed to has some thousands of men which the Editor, and be accompanied by she is ready to swing into action the

and Address, at almost any moment, and the not necessarily for insertion' but fact that she has held back, is the as a guarantee of good faith. only hopeful sign to be detected. Presumably, it means that the door is still open to a settlement, that it is not yet too late. Unfor tunately that view cannot be put with any confidence. Experience is too close upon us. Japan's terms-would almost certainly be of a nature which would compel unhesitating rejection. It is to be noted that the settlement ré- ported by Japanese quarters has already been denied and that Hong Kong, Monday, July 12, 1937. fighting was still proceeding this

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In an article in the “Manches- can be localised, but whether ter Guardian," Professor Namier China and Japan can avoid open celebrates the extinction of a once war on a large scale. The fresh vital part of Britain's constitu- Foutbreak of hostilities on Satur- tional custom, the presidency of day bore a sharply different the Kingsöver his Cabinet Coun- character from the less purpose-cil. The decisive stage in the ful clashes that led up to the evolution of the Cabinet, it is conflict and subsequent events agree! rame in the early eigh- confirm the deep gravity of the teenth century, when the King situation. Information regard- ceased to preside at Cabinet ing precisely what is going on meetings, when the Prime Minis- is necessarily scanty and someter's importance was enlarged, what incidental, failing to con- and when a small body of Minis- vey a complete picture. Developters came to settle policy. But ments proceed swiftly one upon before the homogeneous respon- the other and impressions and sible Cabinet that we know, came assessments are kept thereby into its present place there were, a constant state of flux. It is for a large part of the eighteenth plain, nevertheless, that Luchu- century, two Cabinets the Cab- chiao has in a few hours become Finet Council, consisting, as ancient history, unimportant and old, of the great officers of the barely related to the happenings Court, the Archbishop of Canter- of to-day.

bury, and the Lord Chief Jus- The trouble has, of course, been tice, besides the heads of the brewing for several months. The Church, the law, and the ser- steady pressure of Japan in her vices; and the Cabinet: proper, policy of "peaceful penetration,'

"the "effective Cabinet," or "active which in North China has meant part of the Administration." The the employment of the bludgeon latter gained irresistibly, and the or threat of it on several occa functions of the former dwindled sions, has been accompanied by away almost to nothing. But it smouldering hostility in the retained one. function which sur- ranks of the Twenty-Ninth Route vived. It met to hear the King's Army. Made manifest in sev- Speech read before the assembly erál pást incidents, this antagon-or prorogation of Parliament, and ism has been kept in control only over-these-meetings the King with some difficulty and now presided, as he had before the they have, apparently, the bit active Gabinet had evolved. The between their teeth, it is doubt-Speech, of course, was that of ful whether the Twenty-Ninth the Ministers of the inner Cab- Army-can be trusted to do any met; the meeting was the thing but fight. If reliance can barest formality, so formal in- be placed in first reports of Sat-deed that when, in Victoria's urday's renewal of fighting, there reign, it came to be tacked on to can be only one conclusion, that a meeting of the Privy Council a breach of the truce understand- it was found difficult to explain ing by the 29th Army, precipitat the curious_distinctiorts ed events. But whether it

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