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...confessions, notably those of his close personal friends of many years, Radek and Romm, adding that he believed the unfortunate Radek will be shot and that the chances of Romm are not much better. Like all newsfolk actually working in Moscow and getting their dispatches past the Soviet censor, Mr. Duranty is in a delicate position, all the more delicate because every Soviet official knows that he was constantly in and out of the houses of the prisoners who last week confessed a plot to kill Stalin. But Why Do They Confess? The first quoting interview ever given...
...this dispatch calmly in a Madrid which continued to be battered, bombed and shelled last week, and then to get it past a suspicious Spanish censor was objective U. S. journalism at its best and bravest. The two biggest lies of the week were told respectively by the opposed Spanish leaders...
Valencia was still claiming to be the seat of Spanish Democracy this week but in its allied district of Catalonia the official Barcelona censor passed dispatches describing it as "Western Europe's First Communist State." Reports from both Spanish sides indicated that Stalin has now sent some of his best bombers and pursuit fighters to Spain, and that these Soviet craft are extremely fine machines, greatly surprising the Germans who had supposed until last week that it was enough for them to send such "old crates" as the French have been sending and as Madrid has been buying...
Presently the Nanking censor passed dispatches saying it was only the Japanese Domei News Agency which had invented "that appalling falsehood," the story of the broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese...
...dissolved in North China all local branches of the Nanking Government's own political party at the behest of Japan (TIME, Nov. 9), the Tokyo Cabinet last week would have been naive had they not listened with incredulity and anger to what was coming through the Nanking censor. Angry Japan (and Japan was also puzzled) took the precaution of ordering impressive Japanese military units in North China to move slowly, tentatively down the railway toward Nanking...