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...world revolution by orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle the Fourth International, yet last week such a reputable correspondent as "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff) of the New York Times was able to write of the ''Free International" as he prefers to call...
Coach Lamar said yesterday that it is still too early to hazard any predictions, but that early indications augur a good season. As usually the case with a Freshman eleven the lineups will undoubtedly shift considerably for the early...
...knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special writer for the New York Times, cabled that "a daring airman, whose nationality cannot be disclosed for the present, has flown over the North Sea at a dizzy height. His mission was to use specially sensitized plates to photograph the movements of the German fleet...
Briton against Briton? With the Rhineland crisis thus tangled some European wiseacres believed a story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop had banged his fist on Mr. Anthony Eden's desk and uttered threats. The most painstaking and detached analysis of the situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party...
Recalling the fact that some months ago Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends...