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Undeclared War Is Proceeding On Two Continents, Says M. Litvinoff Denouncing

Says M. Litvino

MASKED AND

Naddition to masted agarose ports or by smoking mest al

addition to masked aggres- vice and by bombarding Spanish

THE CHINA

OCTOBER

FROM A SPEECH AT GENEVA

xtensive aid than humanity that they who have re- and China more surrected the most garage and those countries are modestly de- long dead theories of the evil and manding of it. I prefer to do dark ages may not dare to speak something to the lives of

spare in the name of modern Europe; tens of hundreds of thousands of com- that they who burn the finest crea- victims of the possible extension tions of the human spirit, who per- or continuation of aggression than we have now aggression, naked, on mercial vessels.

"You will understand why one secute the most brilliant represen- to s the Asiatic continent."

spare the feelings and the self-

"Two States, members of th

the can no longer speak without irony tatives of art, science, and liter love of the aggressors League and of its Council, are be of non-intervention in Spanish af- ature, that they who are despised What can, and must, the League We ing subjected to invasion by fairs. We know three States by the entire world of culture, do in face of aggression? foreign land, sea, and air forces, which have drawn apart from the only make themselves ridiculous know that an English writer once Both the commercial vessels and pacific ideas of the League and in when they prate of saving civili- said that the best way to avoid I the warships of other parties are recent years have made attacks on sation and use that plea to preach temptation is to yield to it.

know there are political sages who victims of every kind of attack. other States. All three States a crusade against other people. International commerce is suffer- justify their aggression with one "There is no point now in speak think the best way to get rid of ing

and the same motive the strug- ing of threats to peace for peace aggression is to yield to it.

Unde- has already been broken. gle against Communism,

"To carry out their self-appoint- clared war is raging on two contin-

***On the Continent of Asia. without declaring war, without a shadow of cause or of justifica- tion, one State attacks another- attacks China,—pours armies of hundreds of thousands into its ter ritory, blockades its coast, paraly

JUSTIFYING EXISTENCE The League will not be justify-

UNMASKED WAR

PROPAGANDA AGAINST

IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS

ses trade in one of the greatest ed missions of conferring great ents, and its repercussions and ing its existence if, while abstain- ing from such counsels, it remains commercial centres of the world. blessings on all nations they are reactions are hard to foresee. And we are still, to all appear ready to spare no energies or re-

passive itself pleading its weak- ances, only at the beginning of sources of their own people. They "The reform of the League re- ness, its insufficient amiversality, these operations, the later stages are ready to reduce to a minimum quires a good deal of time, while and the absence from its debates and end of which are still inca its most elementary material re- the present Assembly has to solve of those guilty of aggression who culable.

quirements and leave it on hunger more immediate problems, We do not wish to obey its decisions. rations, only to have sufficient have an appeal for help from two "I am firmly convinced that a re- are solute policy pursued by the arms to root out Communism in members of the League who

victims of aggression. This ap- League of Nations in one case of other countries."

peal faces the League with a se aggression would rid us of all the vere test. It cannot retain any au- other cases. Only as a result of "I am sure that all sensible thority whatsoever or even main such policy will the former mem people understand perfectly the tain its existence if it for ever bers of the League kock at our stupidity of the anti-Communist evades the fulfilment of its obliga- door, and we will be able gladly We slogans and the aggressive inter- tions and makes a declaration of to say to them, “Come in.

shall not ask them about their tions which they hide, but they impotence.

"I am listen to or read the nonsense in

convinced that the ideology or the international re- silence out of considerations of po- League, even with its present com- gimes prevailing in their coun- liteness, which are perhaps out of position, can afford both Spain tries.” place in the circumstances. It is time to tell these avowed praters

"In spite of the obligations to prohibit the departure of foreig ers for Spain to take part in mili- tary operations there, tens of thou-. sands of men in military forma- tion, whole divisions at a time, fully armed, with generals and of ficers at their head, were sent to help the Spanish rebels under the eyes of everyone directly from the ports of the countries which had assumed the formal obligations I have mentioned

COMMUNISM

"These are not guesses. The are facts. Round Spain are cruis- ing foreign warships which help of hate that it is not for them to the rebels by their intelligence ser- profess concern for the interest, of

THE

WORLD GOES BY

By "ULYSSES"

(no-{ "Now has

SPEATING of grasshopper heros His house will ha new distinction.

-Evening Standard. Some have greatness thrust.

them.

me to start into this column) some bing in Eton." ingenious fellow has devised a trap for them which makes the life of a: grasshopper very unpleasant in- deed.

upon

A Very Mad Madrigal, by "In the North China Parenthesis

The inventor must have felt ex- tremely badly about grasshoppers. He has constructed a trap which fits Daily News. on to the front of a harvesting tractor.

As the tractor moves along, the trap emits a sharp yelping noise. The noise is so sudden and so dis- turbing, that the grasshoppers in the corn leap high into the air only to fall into a canvas funnel attached to the harvester.

Once in the funnel they are swiftly chopped into pieces by whirling knives.

When this 8 incident is over, Oh, how happy we shall be,

And we shall no longer dither When we take our morning tea.

Business will again be brighter, Once more we'll be on the spree,

And the Chinese will be making Friends out of the enemy.

has

When "impending doom”

passed us, And we start to count the cost

Of this nasty little rumpus, We shall know just what we're lost. We shall miss the evening's air-

raids,

The remains are then transform- ed by another part of the machine into fertilizer, which is scattered behind the tractor as it moves along Miss old Izzy on the bust,

The whole transformation from live jumping grasshopper to dead fertilizer takes only a few seconds. To grasshoppers- life sents gloomy picture.

Fame

"Mr. A. C. Beasley Robinson, who the be the House Master “Mustyns, the new house at Eton, is one of

ters in the school

And enjoy the Free from bom

When we've

schemazzle

shine and dust.

We can get back to our jobs.

And at night-time quietly sozzle While we think of those queer “yobs,

Posing every day as sp

ring newsmen with At the funny tales they Which they bluntly scepticize.

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