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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since to hand over the Saar is a complex business, the Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...
...Under the Aloisi pact signed late last year in Rome (TIME, Dec. 10), Germany agreed to pay France 900,000,000 French francs for the Saar mines. No pay, no mines. Last week Germans were confident that citizens of the Saar, who have used French francs for the last 15 years and recently possessed 1,800,000,000, would cheerfully hand over this sum in a currency backed 81% by gold in exchange for German marks with a gold backing of less than 3%. According to Germans the "monetary patriotism" of Saarlanders equals the rest of their German patriotism, will...
...accused were too eminent to be tried in Moscow, although in Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of exceedingly select Communist company-including such prisoners as Comrade Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law of Great Exile Trotsky) and Comrade Grigory Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," and personal bodyguard of Lenin during the late Dictator's years of exile...
...raised by Dictator Lenin to head the Third International (Moscow's permanent base of operations for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy was judging two Red giants...
...Cunard skippers, to be retired on half-pay for three years, to be pensioned thereafter for life. In line for both bonus & burgee was the Mauretania's Captain Reginald V. Peel, who last week was transferred to the Olympic to succeed Captain John W. Binks, retired (TIME, Dec. 31). Cunard Line had agreed before the merger to retire its captains at 60, to ease congestion in the promotion of deck officers. But White Star got tired of paying off retired Cunard skippers...