RUSSIA-CHINA: ''Not One Square Inch!

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Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene.

Moscow's smart move of withdrawing her armored trains stilled nearly all talk of intervention at Washington, London, Paris. But it was probably Tokyo which caused Manchuria's Chang to sue for a separate peace. Japan has huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor "Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird which greatly resembles Prince Chichibu of Japan perching with a wink above the apple of Japanese eyes, Manchuria.