"Hold Up Your Hands!"
As Will Rogers said in Friday's
Spokesman-Review, "It's a great
world, even if you are just looking at
it for comedy purposes." Rogers sees
the comedy of the conflicts in China
and India. But the Japanese and
British governments are hammering
on in dead seriousness.
Thus there is a touch of comedy in
this dispatch from Admiral Taylor, in
command of the American squadron
at Manila, and given out at Washington Thursday night without comment:
"Chinese have unconditionally accepted all terms of Japanese ulti-