Mr. Isaac Marcosson, the well-known American writer, whose visit to the Far East we announced some time ago, has now reached Japan, where he has already delivered an address upon the conditions in Europe. Hatred, who says, is the principal business of Europe.
The Poles hate the Czechs; the Czechs hate the Austrians; the Austrians distrust the Hungarians; the Hungarians loathe the Rumanians and the Ramanians dislike the Italians.
The master hate is the bitter resent:
ment that the Germans feel for Franco.
Naturally after all their practice during the war the Germans would have the most colossal hate going, and that being the case, as presented by an outside observer, we may well wonder how the position of France lies in view of all the disarmament proposals present and} future. Nourishing such a hate, there can be no sincerity in anything that Germany says or does, and the fact that discoveries are being made daily of guns and howitzers concealed with all the art that cunning could devise points gloomily to the menace of the future. Mr. Marcosson, however, believes that the Washington Conference is likely to lead to a better state of things, but there he! inevitably talks as an outsider. For the people in the thick of things there can be no confidence in disarmament when the scalp-hunters may be out at any time.
Worn has been received by naval radio that the U. 8. naval service will be granted an extension of time for filing income tax returns up until June 15. The regular date of filing these returns is March 16.
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