'The European powers, disappointed over the uselessness of the abstract Internationals based' onthe Langue of Nations, are waiting eagerly the establishment of an entirely new order. "From this point of view, the present Anglo-French and Ttalo-German confrontation may be regarded as the travail to" be gone through before new order can be established.
On February 12 Secretary of State Hull of the United States emphasized, in a radio broadcast all over America, the inviolability of treaties and international law and the ces sity to remove international trade barriers, while demanding the safety of his € living in foreign countries and their rights and. interests, He declared that if foreign powers took up a. defiant attitude toward the United Slates, the latter might be forced to accept the chal-Tenge and resort to arms.
Senator Pittman, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Senate, told the press that if Japan did "not give a satisfactory answer to the American protest about China, the American President. might ex: raise his Tegal rights and. prohibit the import of Japanese goods, or might prohibit the export to Japan scrap iron and other materials.
The Senator also stated that Japan by Selzing American property in Japan and China and sever diplomatic relations with the United Stotes, but that there would be no war because Japan could gain nothing by fighting America." Cone sidering statements of Mr. Hull fend Senator Pittman, it might seem that the United States is the ehal-Jonger of war.
But 1 believe that is far from the cal intentions of the 100,000,000 citizens of the United States.
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