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ing parallel lines of policy vis-a- vis Japanese aggrandisement on the China, continert, sets before Baron Hiranuma an issue over which some very hard thinking will need to be done. The British Note at least ends any illusion in Tokyo that third Powers can in- definitely be hoodwinked polite ambiguities.

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If, as it is resonable to believe, the recent loan by the United States Government-controlled Ex- port-Import Bank is intended to convey to Japan that the United States means to do something about American rights in China, it may be as well to make clear just what is to be done. Senti- ment in the United States ap- proves some aid to China. And it has highly disapproved of American aid going to Japan.

Despite this disapproval, ship- ments of material obviously in-

Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 17, 1939. tended for war purposes have

BRITAIN'S NOTE

continued to leave American shores for Japanese ports. Now that aid to China appears to be part of United States Govern- Britain's latest Note to Japanment policy in the Far East, the is adroit in its challenge for it question arises how to prevent strips Japanese China policy private exporters from nullifying statements of their verbiage, in-the effect of that policy by aiding vites Tokyo to repeat them in the Japanese. American-Japanese the plain language of the British trade has declined severely in re- interpretation and then, better cent months it is true. But this still, rejects the Japanese thesis decline seems attributable to or- in advance. Only in one respect dinary commercial considerations is the door left open: the oppor- rather than to a definite Ameri- tunity is given Prince Hiranuma can policy of standing by China. to repudiate the obvious infer-

The new Government-sponsor- ences to be drawn from Prince ed credit to China calls for a re- Konoye's December 22 statement examination of American position and to modify Japanese ambit- on this question.

ions. The likelihood of such

step is, however, exceedingly re- mote, and Tokyo's problem, in replying, will be to calculate how

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far the more and more frequent | After-Dinner Poets

British and American references

Herbert Morrison and I Control the traffic going by The bridge that was our Waterloo No longer causes any hullaballo! We live in amity by Thames-side Separated by no more than one

bridge wide,

to the imminence of economic`re- At a recent banquet in the prisals represents the views and Guildhall, Mr. Leslie Burgin, Min- intentions of those in high auth-ister of Transport, contributed to ority.

his speech some verses of his own Some will associate, the descious reference to Mr.

composition. Opening with a viva- Herbert patch at this particular juncture Morrison, leader of the London of a Note which may well be des-County Council, he remarked: cribed as stiff, with the result of Mr. Chamberlain's visit to Rome. If there is any such connection, and it seems old that a Note ap proved on the Monday before the Prime Minister's departure for Rome should have been held in

Here is surely a hint that abeyance until Saturday, so much should prove a boon to such after- the better, for it can only mean dinner speakers as are prone to that Mr. Chamberlain and Lord regard the ordeal with trepida- Halifax were satisfied that the tion, or to doubt their capacity to prospects of immediate trouble in amuse. For, whatever their mat- the Mediterranean are negligible. terial, put in the form of a roll- Apart from that possibility, icking ballad, a stately sonnet, there is every reason to assume or-for those who like to drive from the general tone of the Note home points by rhetorical repe- and from the inspired revelation tition-a ballade, it is nearly cer- that its terms were drafted after tain to hold the attention of their consultations in Washington and audience. Poets, it may be ad- Paris, that Britain and the United mitted, are not so plentiful States this time mean business, after-dinner speakers, and some Very clearly, the situation in the of the latter (not excepting Mr. Far East is beginning to crystal- Burgin) might conceivably revive lise and equally plainly Britain in their hearers. the recollection and other Powers with important that interests to preserve must make their decisions, whether to sur- render those interests in the face of Japanese aggression, or take Who, asked for his metre, steps now for their protection. Said: "I think it's neater Britain's Note provides, presum-

To get as many words into the last

line as I possibly can." ably, the keynote to the nlood in Original methods, however, which Britain, the United States would no doubt merely heighten and France are to be found to- the effect. The possibility of over- day, and, late though it is in ar- enthusiasm, of the advent of the riving, it is none the less wel-long narrative poem, and a re [come. As the Soviet-Japanese turn to minstrel times, with can- fishery dispute also remains an tos accompanying courses, must, anxious problem for the Japanese naturally, be considered; but it Government, the unmistakable in-needs only the inattention of the timations that Britain and the epicures to provide a cure for United States are at last follow- lepics.

There was once a young man of

Japán

Whose verses would never quite

scan,

as