Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-16 | Page 4 | Merry-Go-Round

1 Round Merry Trade Trad Mark rk MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PE PEARSON end and nd ROBERT ALLEN llEN V WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The presidents president's international experts had hod predicted a sweeping victory f for r the conservative government in Britain's national elections elections elec elec- Thursday They also Iso were sure that Britain will greatly increase her naval strength which strength which means of course increased building for the United States whichever way the election went They are not entirely sure however what tack British policy toward Italy will take The conservatives conservatives conservatives con con- have not entirely shared the religious fervor of the labor laborites tes and win left left winders left ers for sanctions sanctions sanctions sanc sanc- and the League of Nations This is the chief question mark that the Roosevelt administration is waiting to see answered Leaderless Labor LaborThe The political situation in Great Britain can be summarized this way The labor party is an army without generals the liberals are a staff of generals without an arrn army The old leaders of the labor party once among the most famous figures in the empire are arc now dead scattered or discredited Arthur Henderson is dead Ramsay MacDonald and Jim Thomas who have joined the tory ranks are arc hooted and booed almost every time they appear in public Philip Snowden lost prestige when he accepted the peer peer- age George Lansbury the veteran leader re resigned resigned resigned re- re signed from the party in a dispute over sanctions against Italy The present leader Clement R. R Atlee is new and untried Among the liberals the old leaders still remain Lloyd George despite his age is still a potent fig fig- ure Sir Herbert Samuel is considered one of the ablest men in England while Sir John Simon despite his failure as foreign minister still commands commands com corn mands prestige But they have no one to follow them The once- once powerful liberal party has dwindled to a mere handful Far East Worries The state department is more concern concerned d about the landing of Japanese tro troops p in Shanghai than anyone officially would like to admit Reason for the worry is confidential information information information tion which the state department long has had before be fore it that the Japanese intended to walk in on China just as soon as the British fleet was engrossed engrossed engrossed en en- grossed in the Mediterranean Once before before about about four weeks ago the ago the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese started to help themselves to their wealthy helpless neighbor This was at just Opposite opposite opposite site whence the Japanese sent one cruiser and seven destroyers on the flimsy excuse that a Japanese cargo loaded on a Chinese junk unk had been overtaxed by Chinese authorities The incident was quickly settled however when the American Asiatic fleet anchored off replacing the British vessels which had sailed to the Mediterranean The arrival of the American ships may have been pure coincidence But it is significant that the British previously had sounded out the state department as to what support they could get et from the American fleet in case of trouble in the Pacific The present landing of Japanese troops in Shanghai ostensibly arises out of the murder of a Japanese marine presumably marine presumably by Chinese But Japanese have been murdered in Shanghai Shanghai Shang Shang- hai many times in the past ast without arousing Tokyo's Tokyo's To To- kyo's lyos resentment The difference today is that foreign foreign foreign for for- eign naval forces arc arc absent The American fleet is far to the south Also Japan has told the Britis Brit Brit- is ish s she e wants to o the Shanghai municipal council governing body of the greatest port in the orient At present the British have five votes on the council the Japanese two Tok Tokyo o wants this ratio reversed Tokyo has not said so in these exact words but the the intimation is that either cither the British surre surrender der their theIr control of Shanghai or the Japanese will take it it Co by 1