GREAT BRITAIN: Sanctions & War

Knowing what was about to be said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing for war.

Ever since Japan's famed declaration of her Far Eastern policy the world's eyes have turned to Britain. Would she stand by the Nine Power Treaty? Would she call a halt to...

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