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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the new, fast-growing Fascist war base at Asmara (TIME, Aug. 26) in Eritrea, the Herald Tribune's John T. Whitaker reported on the Challenger...
...moving up last week in the belief that their zero hour will come early in October. Any time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that this handsome young man had proposed prematurely to barter away part of the British Empire (TIME, July...
...week, Emperor Hirohito peered through his heavy spectacles at a bowing and scraping galaxy of advisers who finally decided how to dispose of the sword-murder by a junior officer, belonging to the Army's fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group by Japanese newsorgans...
...last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME, Aug...
...surprises. Year ago first award went to Man of Aran (TIME, Sept. 24) but the most popular picture at the show was Extase, of which the climax was a close-up of the heroine's face while the rest of her anatomy was occupied in carnal misbehavior (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934, et seq.). Last week the Fascist Party's special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went to Columbia Pictures' No Greater Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare...