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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words perturbed London not in the least, since three months ago Pandit Nehru was saying just as heatedly that his Congress members would "never" abandon their boycott. In the opinion of His Majesty's Government, once Congress politicians take office they will end by trying to make the Constitution work, rather than by continuing efforts which would wreck the Constitution and cost them their lucrative jobs under it-this bait having thoughtfully been provided by far-seeing Sir Samuel Hoare, today Home Secretary and runner-up for the Prime Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nehru Pipes Down | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Paris the new Cabinet of the Popular Front threatened to abandon French neutrality in the Spanish conflict altogether by throwing open the French frontier for arms sales to Spanish Leftists, while keeping it closed to Spanish Rightists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Splitting | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...break between King Carol and his violent-tempered brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor. Carol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royal Liver | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...with all this, Rightist Franco cannot now finally sweep Spain, Germany and Italy will probably abandon him, but not the Rightist principle. Diplomatically they may move for a compromise which will restore one of the sons of Alfonso XIII (probably Don Juan, the healthiest) to the throne of Spain, counting on the backing of Britain who is eager for anything that will halt the threat of a general European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Last Chance | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Italy last week. Writing in II Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create in the Mediterranean another zone of expansion under British political and economic control, definitely contrary to the Italian Mediterranean spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Attention to Jews | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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