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They burst into the Chancellery at Vienna, found the still-stained yellow sofa upon which Chancellor Dollfuss slowly bled to death after Nazi assassins had pumped him full of lead (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), draped it triumphantly last week with the Nazi swastika flag...
...when the American Bar Association held its annual convention in Washington, its members enthusiastically wrung Herbert Hoover's right hand until it bled. Had he been at Kansas City last week, Franklin Roosevelt's hand would not have bled but his ears might have burned, for 3,000 members of the Law's outstanding professional association met there in a very different state of mind. If anything were needed to put a fine edge on the legal profession's fury at Franklin Delano Roosevelt it was the Constitution Day address three weeks ago in which...
...tighten up the eastern buffer for the Rome-Berlin axis, Hitler's Colonel General Goring proceeded from Rome last fortnight to Bled, a resort in Yugoslavia. There he talked Nazi business with elegant Prince-Regent Paul who already has an understanding with Italy. Hungary, to the north of Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to the east, are already in the Italian bag. Rumania is next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland...
During the reign of her first son, sickly Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted wars, griped by religious dissension, rumbling with revolt, France was apparently tottering toward dissolution. "With all its normal resources mortgaged [the government] was reduced to a point at which it functioned for the sole benefit of the international financiers...
...have bled so sore of that...