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Honesty in polities is becoming more than a little difficult to de tect The Prime Minister has, for some weeks, been countering Opposition charges of the des patch of fresh Italian reinforce- ments to Franco Spain (simul- taneously with Anglo-Italian con- versations) with refusal to accept such evidence of reinforcements as has been provided. On Mon- day, with implied denials no longer possible, the Prime Minis ter took refuge in the view that the recent operations in Spain had not been materially affected by the equally recent Italian rein- forcements. The fact that Franco has made remarkable progress after a long stalement is appar- ently just another coincidence.

All we mean is that Mr. Cham- berlain-would command more sympathy and support were he open and aboveboard. It might then be possible discreetly to overlook the assurances given by Count Grandi during the Eden resignation crisis, and prior to After a number of official state the opening of the Anglo-Italian ments repudiating hints from conversations, and Mr. Cham- Shanghai that the British Amberlain's declaration of his full bassador would be carrying Jap confidence in Mussolini's inten- anese peace proposals to Gen- tion of honouring his promises. eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

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MORE PEACE TALK

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comes part confirmation from Major Sees It Through

London. The Ambassador's

“mediatory" mission is put in a What is described as "the most somewhat different light it is courageous and most isolated”- true. Apparently, the approach English-speaking theatre in the. was made by Mr. Tani in world has just been discovered Shanghai in an informal conver- An American whose main inter-- sation with Sir Archibald Clark- est is the drama has just been Kerr, with an intimation that making a tour of the Artipodes Japan was anxious to call the and the South Seas. In the heart whole thing off and was prepar- of the goldfields of New Guinea ted to be lenient! Léniency, we he came across a town named

gather from well-informed, semi- Wau, with a population of 700,- official-sources, implies Japan's mostly miners. Its situation is so willingness to let bygones be rtmote that everything in it not bygones provided she is left in only the inhabitants themselves undisturbed possession of all that but all their belongings-has part of China north of the Yel- been transported to it from the low River! Presumably, there sea coast by aeroplane over would be a withdrawal of Japan-mountain ranges 7,000 feet high. ese troops from Shantung and

In this otherwise inaccessible even from the larger part of the spot the visitor found, during the occupied territory along the week of his stay, a “savagely Yangtsze Valley, the Japanese eager theatrical group playing having first assured themselvės

Mr. J. B. Priestley's "Dangerous obedience to certain rules by the Corner" The director of the Chinese by an understanding

group was "a fierce little Bri- which would not differ appreci-tish major with bristling white ably from the Tangku Truce sti- moustache." The men in this pro-- pulations. It is to be supposed duction were superb (or so the that if Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr discoverer of it reports) giving has been asked in all seriousness hardest-boiled West Enders

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to submit such a plan to Genera- would have red, and the.

lissimo Chiang Kai-shek, he will performances which even the mention the matter to him, if scenery was of professional qual- he has not done so already Butty though the amateur work of we doubt very much whether he the major himself. will present it seriously. His

prolonged stay in Shanghai may

be accepted as evidence that he The Highfalutin was prepared to go fairly thor-

oughly into the matter, to assess In bestowing mysterious, semi- the Japanese viewpoint. Having poetical names on their new-sea- ascertained it, and being fairly son models and dress materials well acquainted with the Chinese the fashion-makers are merely attitude, it is impossible to be following the practice of the lieve that His Excellency will eighteenth century. Describing strain his own or anyone else's the appearance of a great lady at- patience in trying to convert the Court of Louis XIV, a con- China's leaders to accept a point temporary diarist wrote:

of view which is diametrically was arrayed in a robe of She

contrary to every sound instinct Sighs, adorned with Superthious as well as to intelligence. China's Regrets, the edges pointed with stand is clear enough. She is Perfect Candour, trimmed with ready for peace if it means the Indiscreet Complaints. She wore freedom of China's territories ribbons of Marked Attentions and no further encroachment and shoes of the colour of Queen's upon her sovereignty. She is to Hair, embroidered with diamonds day far too deeply committed to in treacherous stripes. Above her withdraw on any other terms curls of Elevated Sentiments was Moreover there is nothing in a headdress" of Certain Con the Japanese picture, politically, trimmed with fickle feat economically or militarily, to while over her shoulder hustle her leaders into a futile Absalom - Tress of - Mom surrender on any pretext. If Agitation. Which Jargon anything, the situation indicates perfectly quite the reverse of that.