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...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...
...centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted...
Frantically, for 36 hours last week, Mr. Noyes tried to reach Mrs. Simpson by transatlantic telephone. She would not speak with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness...
...accepted an arrangement which in other countries of the Near East has gen erally meant both. 2) Beneficiary of the deal was neither Britain, whose Near East oil holdings are richest in Iraq and Persia, nor Russia, which has shared Britain's interest in Afghanistan as a buffer state northwest of India, but a first-string...
...Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored deal, Britain's control of the Mediterranean would be virtually nullified and France would be left a buffer between three Fascist States. Fortunately for the plight of the radical French Cabinet of new Premier Léon Blum, week-end reports indicated that Spanish Loyalist forces were successfully holding their own, possibly had a slight edge over the Fascist rebels. Loudly the French Government proclaimed its neutrality...