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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark a piece of presumptive skulduggery to be elucidated last week is the reputed presence in Portugal of Nazi insurrectionists from Germany. In the opinion of Portuguese secret police, these Nazis are deliberately seeking to upset the regime of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who for seven years has run Portugal with such success as to give it one of the best records of any country during Depression. Given the fall of the Salazar regime, the way would be open to satisfy Adolf Hitler's land hunger by the passing into German hands, through purchase or otherwise, of Portuguese...
...Marquise," the charming Marquise de Crussol, Marie Louise Frédérique Jeanne Amélia de Crussol d'Uzés, is the bourgeois-born daughter of one of France's great industrial families, the Béziers. Her father's millions were derived from the tinning of sardines. Precocious as a child and fond of teasing an old Senator, her uncle, to tell her about the politics of the day and the political salons of great French maitresses in the past, Marie Louise acquired by marriage the exalted nobility of the House...
...France has ever had are her star guests. Always the place of honor is occupied by "The Bull," heavy-jowled Edouard Daladier, Minister of Defense. Not long ago M. Daladier wrested control of the Radical Socialist Party from paunchy old Edouard Herriot, also a frequent guest of the Marquise de Crussol, and the possibility of a Left coup d' état is never mentioned without mentioning the Bull, who today commands the Army...
Meanwhile a discordant voice sounded from Mexico, whose history is speckled with de facto Governments set up by military rebellion. Last week Mexico's Leftist Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) asked President Lázaro Cárdenas to refuse Somoza's de facto Government Mexican recognition. "It is time," the Confederation sanctimoniously declared, "to do something to end military rebellions in Latin America." This put President Cárdenas in a ticklish spot. Latin American nations have repeatedly charged that the U. S.'s occasional refusal to recognize Latin-American revolutionary Governments was in effect...
...Army Medical Library "now contains 394,003 volumes, 558,616 pamphlets - in all 952,619 volumes and pamphlets." Current periodicals being indexed: 1,509. Oldest: Johannes Gerson's De Polhitione Nocturna, published in Cologne in 1467. All publications in the Army Medical