Show Merry Go Round Merry Rou nd Trade Mark Mart MarkI I B By DREW PE PEARSON end and ROBE ROBERT ROBERI r ALLEN WASHINGTON Six foot V Six foot Sir Ronald Lindsay Lindsay Lindsay Lind Lind- say his majesty's ambassador to the United States slipped into the state department after it was al almost almost almost al- al most closed the other night and climbed the back backstairs backstairs backstairs stairs because the elevators were not running Closeted with Cordell Hull HuH for more than an hour lour he told the inside secret of why the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese suddenly had halted their plans to seize north China The foreign office in London had called caned in ro rotund rotund round ro- ro und Ambassador Matsudaira uncle-in-law uncle of the emperor told him that if the League of Nations applied sanctions against Italy for conquering Ethiopia it should also apply them against Japan for or stealing north China that Britain was ready to po IO to bat for this policy Shortly afterward Secretary Hull went down the he back stairs of the state department motored to o the Union station and conveyed this information information tion to Roosevelt just before the presidents president's train departed for Warm Springs at p p. p m. m British Policy 32 1931 t Four years before this this almost almost to the month month- Sir Ronald Lindsay used to come down to the state department to confer with Secretary Henry L. L Stimson At that time he nodded assent while Stimson lectured him on the danCers of Japanese ag aggression res- res sion slon in Manchuria The Japanese move into Manchuria Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia Stimson said aid was but the first step It would be followed by the conquest of north China then the Yangtze valley vaney stronghold of British trade then south China and Mr Stimson also held lengthy and vi vigorous orous transatlantic telephone conversations with his ol old friend Ramsay MacDonald prime minister of the national government MacDonald agreed with him emphatically promised cooperation a definite An An- American glo-American front But whenever Ambassador Cameron Forbes in in Tokio delivered one of Secretary Stimsons Stimson's vigorous vigorous vigor- vigor ous us protests to the Japanese foreign office the British ambassador called an hour or so later to say that Great Britain thoroughly understood the Japanese position And when Secretary Stimson finally went to Geneva himself to enlist the support of Europe's premiers for definite sanctions against Japan the only semblance of support he could get was from Italy Ramsay MacDonald who agreed with him pe personally per ier- could n not t swing the Tories who ruled his cabinet Thus the British in 32 1931 spiked at Geneva the principle for which they are fighting today Stimson Roosevelt Policy Henry L. L Stimson came back crestfallen from Geneva He had tried to set an exam example le for peace He had tried to block Japans Japan's initial move toward engulfing all China He had tried to o. o bolster the Lea League ue of oC Nations And the British had stabbed him in the back After Roosevelt was elected elected but but before he as assumed assumed assumed as- as office office Stimson Stimson went to see him came away elated He had sold the president-elect president his policy in the Far East Since then international initiative has been re re- re versed The British have been doing the talking The state department has been doing the listening The only difference is that Roosevelt as well weIl as he can under the neutrality laws is backing the British up to the hilt Note Note On On the ni night ht the armies of Japan were poised outside the Great Wall Vall ready to take north China the Chinese ambassador Alfred Sze was throwing a resplendent dinner for lor Mayor Mansfield Mansfield Mansfield Mans Mans- field of Boston At Home HomeComing HomeComing HomeComing Coming date on the capitals capital's social program is isa a tea on December 2 to which the invitations read in part Captain Tamon Yamaguchi Japanese Naval A At t Home In the Chinese Room Mayflower Hotel S Extravagant ant claims of new vitamins in food products have forced the pure food and drugs ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration to set up a new un unit t to probe such claims frIght Copyright 19 1935 by United Future Feature Inc |