TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4833, 14 April 1936, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Japan and Russia. "Nearly half a year has already passed since Comrade Yurenev, our Ambassador in Japan, submitted the draft of an agreement on Soviet-Japanese-Manchurian frontier committees to consider and settle frontier incidents. To this day, however, the Japanese Government has not given its reply to our draft. It is said that certain Japanese military circles needed frontier incidents on the Soviet frontier to divert somebody's attention from their activities in Manchuria and from the expansionist actions carried out by them in north China and on territory of .the Chinese Republic generally; that these and similar frontier incidents are needed by some people in Japan also in order to demonstrate before the outer world the 'firmness' and 'force' of Japanese policy. One thing is clear, that the dangerous game pursued along our. Far Eastern frontiers is not ceasing and that the Japanese military are making their way to our frontiers both directly and through other territories." —M. Molotov, Chairman of the Russian People's Commissars' Council. j Republic and Monarchy. "How right Bolingbroke was in a flash of inspiration two centuries ago when he remarked that it was far easier to fasten the advantages of a republic on%|o a monarchy that it was to fasten the advantages of a monarchy on to a republic. The temporal power of . the Crown has diminished through the ages, and yet to-day the spiritual power of the Crown is not | only far greater than it ever was, but greater than any man, in vision and in dream, could have foreseen it. The power of the Crown is not to-day the power of force. It is a great moral power, and it must depend on the character and the quality of him who sits upon the Throne."—Mr. Baldwin.