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proceeds with the attack on that part
of the country which comprises the
provinces of Jehol and Mongolia.
Diplomacy has invented no method
of preventing Japan from conquering
what she has made up her mind to
possess, and only slight resistance is
being offered by the Chinese armies.
There is, in fact, nothing that very
seriously hampers the Japanese at
tempt to gain full control of the COW
eted parts of China. and so, of course,
the Mikado's government. always
shrewd, always alert, takes advantage
of the absence of actual opposition.
Early this week fights were in pro-
gress both north and south of the
Great Wall, and there was some talk
of Japan attacking the city of Tient-
sin in China proper.
There can no longer be any doubt
as to the ultimate goal of present
day Japanese ambitions, in fact,
members of the Toxic government
have unblushingly acknowledged that
they want Jehol and Mongolia, just
as they wanted, and got, most i'm
portant part of Manchuria.
Disarmament.
Another question now asked is:
What will the next president of the
United States do in regard to the in
ternational disarmament situation?
Here, too, it can be said that he has
not committed himself; he is trying
to collect data, to inform himself SO
as to be in readiness when the prob
lem faces him.
1t is said-but so far it is merely
a rumor-that the International dis
armament conference in Geneva, tenn
porarily adjourned last July, will re-
sumo its work on January %, but
this. too. is likely to be ineffective as
| long as there is no way of knowing
| anything about the general attitude OF
the new American government.
Plans have been formulated
countless plans, indeed-and to date
not one single concrete result has de-
| veloped.
But while the world waits for dis
armament, Germany reiterates her
announcement that in spite of the
Versailles peace treaty she will arm
herself so as not to remain second
rank power. Last Sunday the new
chancellor, General Kurt Won Schlei-
cher, in addressing a huge audience
in Berlin, declared that new fed
eral militia will be established, and
he intimated that CONSUMPTION might
be resorted to.
| A proclamation of Germany as a
renascent military power is the in
evitable result of that doing-nothins
policy which has paralyzed the dis
armament conference since its very
beginning almost year ago.
World Economics.
Then, too, the world awaits the
new American president with the
question: What will he and his gov
eminent do in connection with the in
ternational economic confer ence
which is to take place in London
some day? He has said nothing, sc
in Europe it is fondly hoped that he
will reverse the Hoover position
which found expression in a state
ment some months back to the effect
that certain fundamental causes Of
the crisis must not be discussed
Roosevelt has, at least, glorious op
portunity of indicating complete
American willingness to cooperate ir
attempts to solve some of the i'm
mensely important problems that are
an outgrowth of the unprecedented
world crisis.
One ray of light comes from Cen
trail Europe through sources usually
adequately informed; Economic re
covery is actually taking place il
Austria, Hungary. CzechO-SlOvakis
and adjacent countries; it is learned
that the Vienna "Kredit-Anstalt," the
collapse of which precipitated the
European cataclysm, is being rehabil
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