Rome:
In a speech marking the 11th
anniversary of Italy’s victory at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Dictator
Benito Mussolini is back to his belligerent talk.
“History teaches us when there are serious crises, it is arms and war
which solve them. If I had the terrible
responsibility of governing a country in wartime, I would make a clean sweep of
all powers of discord and defeatists. I
would impose stern discipline behind the war front.” He added that he thought there was too much
talk about peace and disarmament in the world. Vittorio Veneto was the
crucial battle in ending combat on the Italian Front in the World War, and a
major factor in the end of the entire war two weeks later.
Kyoto:
At the Institute of Pacific Relations
conference, the topic of Japan’s presence in Manchuria tops the agenda. Japan maintains troops in Manchuria to
protect its South Manchuria Railway concession, as other nations do in their
concessions. However, China alleges that
Japanese troops are involved in acts of intimidation and terrorization of the
population. Japan, on the other hand,
says its interests in Manchuria are comparable to Great Britain’s interests in
Egypt, or the United States’ interests in Cuba.
A Japanese delegate says China, Japan and the rest of the world all
really want the same thing in Manchuria.
“Japan is interested in the development of Manchuria so that she may
draw on that country for raw materials which she may turn into manufactured
products and which she may sell to the steadily increasing population of
Manchuria.” A delegate from Great
Britain pays tribute to Japan for helping maintain peace in Manchuria when the rest
of China is in turmoil.
New York:
The stock market drops 4.5%, reversing the
brief rally that followed last week’s crash.
London:
The government begins deliberations in
parliament on plans to spend 42 million pounds on unemployment grants and
railway and road improvements, in order to provide jobs to Britain’s
unemployed, which now number more than 1 million. Nevertheless, J.H. Thomas, Minister of Employment,
is not optimistic that the “blight of unemployment”
can be wiped out so easily. “In some
districts of the country there is no hope whatever of work for thousands and
hundreds of thousands of our fellow men, no matter what is done.”
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