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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the land for the past six months, crossing and recrossing his path, has gone Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Christian of Japan. Nearly turned away from the U. S. by Federal immigration authorities in California because his eyes are infected with trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), this soft-faced, gold-toothed Japanese scrupulously obeyed special Public Health Service regulations laid down for his evangelistic tour. He traveled with a doctor, declined to shake hands with anyone, never entered a private home, made sure that linen and table utensils were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good...
...Foreign Secretary, and in those now distant times it was still possible for Great Britain to have made a friendly peace with Benito Mussolini-such a peace as the Hoare-Laval Deal for which British public opinion was not yet ready when Sir Samuel signed it in Paris (TIME, Dec. 16 & 23). Last week not peace but a capitulation to II Duce was made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden amid cries in the House of Commons that His Majesty's Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind...
Recently, when Sir Samuel's policy of making peace between Italy and Ethiopia crashed and he resigned as Foreign Secretary (TIME, Dec. 30), Mr. Gandhi was prompt with a letter of personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed...
Dentist Leroy Leo Hartman (Hartman desensitizer - TIME, Dec. 9) D.Sc...
...employment by nationwide public works; 6) extension of the French compulsory public school system; 7) creation of state boards to increase French agricultural prices, starting with wheat; 8) repeal of numerous decree laws displeasing to the Socialists and Communists which were enacted under former Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, Dec. 16); 9) political amnesty and finally, 10) reform of the statutes of the Bank of France "to guarantee the preponderance of national interests in its managements." This last meant on its face that the famed "200 Families" who have long been accused of dominating France largely through control of its central...