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Italy. Spade-bearded Signor Dino Grandi continued to insist that "Italy will not accept less than parity with the navy of any other continental European power." Said he to correspondents: "I am not thinking exclusively of France. We must think of Turkey, which is not here, and of great Russia, which is not here."
Japan. Sunk in gloom and suspicion was the Japanese delegation, and most of the press in Japan. Tokyo editors freely charged that Statesmen Stimson and MacDonald were in cahoots to balk Japan of her great aspiration: a 70% ratio of Japanese cruisers to either British or U. S. (TIME, Jan. 20).
*Result: in the U.S. Senate blunt Democrat McKellar of Tennessee blurted: "I want to take this occasion to commend Senators Robinson [Dem.] and Reed [Rep.] for their stand in favor of having open season. . . . It will be recalled that the deliberations between President Hoover and Mc. MacDonald were secret. . . . Of all international covenants this particular one should be open and openly arrived at!"
*The late great Nikola Pashitch, founder and longtime Prime Minister of Jugoslavia, once gave an interview to the lady who is now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, and when she indiscreetly let out in Budapest what he had intended for New York, he positively stated not only that he had never spoken to her but that he had never seen her—though there were at least a dozen witnesses to their handshake.