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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Italy not only suddenly removed six Cabinet members but went a long way toward changing allies when Il Duce violently shook up the Fascist hierarchy. The side-changing had been hopefully expected by Great Britain and France for some weeks, but few had supposed so many big Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Changes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

>Lieut. General Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party, who for eight years has stood close enough behind Benito Mussolini to tickle his shoulder blades with a stiletto. With sense of humor zero and self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Changes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Silent Victory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

If the news correspondents wished to see action, the one salient to which they should have been sent was Forbach, the French industrial town (pop. 11,491) which is a small counterpart of Germany's Saarbrücken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Gamelin Speaks | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: No Hari | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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