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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking and finally, last week, to Hankow (see p. 13). Amid the brutal horrors perpetrated in the native quarters of these cities there was just one oasis of succor for Chinese, the "safety zone." At Shanghai year ago a square-bearded, black-robed, one-armed French Jesuit, Father Jacquinot de Besange, originated the safety zone scheme. Colorful, 60-year-old Father Jacquinot, aristocrat by birth, prevailed upon Chinese and Japanese military heads to keep the Nantao area, the old native city next the International Settlement, free of fighting and bombardment. This area, dubbed the Jacquinot Zone, sheltered 250,000 refugee...
Personnel Manager Louis Frichet last week had a busy time keeping his magpie clerks from hanging out the windows to watch French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet as they came & went from the Hotel de Noailles across the street, for Marseille was playing host to the Radical Socialist Party Congress (see col. 3). It was in session when fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole...
Exactly 40 minutes after the fire started Les Nouvelles Galeries collapsed, its walls bursting outward and setting fire to the Hotel de Noailles across the street. Into the hotel rooms of the absent Premier and Foreign Minister rushed firemen who had just time to gather up their papers, later taken to a police station for safe keeping...
Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...
Biggest achievement of Man's Hope is not in its characterizations but in the graphic intensity of isolated scenes. A bomber emerging into calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished...