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...their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew to its bitter end, the old order dropped out of the play. Then wild-eyed greenshirt dignitaries, catapulted into power from a concentration camp, would make their debut in the lobby. Hopeful Axis businessmen would swarm here to buy themselves a Jewish department store...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...editors have preceded each speech with a notation of events leading up to it, and the editorial comments of leading newspapers are appended to each address. In the light of this commentary, readers will probably find Section IV' on "Bloodless Victories" the most interesting. Rarely before in history has the success or failure of a powerful movement depended so completely on the oratorical genius, the political sense of a single man. At this time the German Army is determining the fate of the Reich, but when Hitler occupied the Rhineland he alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope...
...Fleet Street the big milestone was the Times's bloodless revolution. Said the leftish Sunday paper Reynolds News: "The Times recently has been showing refreshing signs of an independent spirit which, expressed with a brilliance unmatched in journalism, may win back the press leadership it lost in that long dark moment of mental aberration in which it confused the interests of a small class with the welfare of the whole community...
Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...