The Archive · 1940

at Sydney, Australia

War cancelled London contracts—Joe Farren Washington, Jan. 15.

Even a modus vivendi to regulate American-Japanese relations after January 26 is dependent on the essential condition that Japan formally guarantee respect for American interests in China, authoritative circles asserted today.

This attitude apparently was taken here following Japanese communica. tion of certain proposals for the temporary maintenance of the "most favoured nation" clause of the expiring 1911 treaty.

Unless an absolute guarantee is forthcoming in the next ten days, however, a "tion-treaty situation" will snapped them up and for the first time since 1937 an American artist has been especially imported to Shanghai for your entertainment.

Critical, hard boiled homeside critics rave over "Migenone's" acrobatic, toe and ballet work. You'll like her too!

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