Show SPLENDID ISOLATION F it has lias been pointed out that the OFTEN United stat States s occupies a place of splendid splendid did Isolation in international affairs Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of State Stimsons Stimson's invoking of the nine nine- power treaty in the Manchurian situation would seem to have definitely placed this nation completely isolated as far as concerted action by the powers in this case Is concerned I I France says it will do nothing England I says there is no occasion for it to do any any- thing None of the other powers so far Is articulate in the least in the matter The technique of the diplomatic art is so cloaked in darkness that it far outruns women women wo wo- men who say yes when they mean no It Itis Itis is so 50 polite that a nation does not know whether it is being kidded or administered an allopathic dose of double-distilled double courtesy II when it receives a y circumlocutory note from a supposed friendly stat state I Nevertheless the opinion is inescapable that the man in the street would have gone at the matter this way If he had been Mr I I Ithe Stimson he would have quietly sounded out the premiers of France Italy Great Britain and the other powers When they were all agreed the eight of them would have sent to the Japanese government Identical notes saying that they did not regard the Nipponese Nipponese Nipponese Nip Nip- ponese as altogether nice in their treatment of China in this Manchurian affair Then the United States would not be standing alone in the world as an outspoken finder fault-finder picking on Japan Of course there is no hint that the other powers are sitting idly by smiling over the awkward act of the United States Los Angeles robbers dug a tunnel to plunder plunder plunder der a bank Getting to the bottom of the financial situation The real unemployment ment problem is always the unemployment of the mind in a world where there is so much to be done |