Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry is notable for its crude technique, and ship-building is very expensive there. . . . If a race develops the Japanese Navy will be very economical." It is less than a month since the Japanese Navy saddled the Empire with the most gargantuan defense budget in Japanese peacetime history (TIME, Dec. 3). Undoubtedly with grave misgivings, Emperor Hirohito, the bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime...
...Approved 239-to-62 the Linlithgow India Report already approved by the Commons (TIME, Dec. 24), thus providing His Majesty's Government with a full mandate to draft its own act giving India more liberal status. In highly premature alarm, the Marquess of Salisbury, a Tory diehard, accused the Government of intending to grant India full Dominion Status, "the ideal of Gandhi...
...Revolution of the World Proletariat. In those days Promoter Zinoviev had plenty of money. He poured millions into the treasuries of English trade unions. Probably he did not write the notorious Zinoviev Letter, purporting to "instruct" Laborite (i.e. Socialist) officials of James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 1. 1924). But on the mere suspicion that the letter might be genuine, British voters turned Scot MacDonald out in a landslide general election and the name of Zinoviev still stinks in England. It now also stinks in Russia, and in Moscow last week the Zinoviev stench was terrific...
Some sort of name simply had to be produced in the third week of capriciously shooting batches of Russians in oriental vengeance for the murder of Josef Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). With the Russian people clamoring to know why a Communist shot a Communist, they were put off by this resolution of the Moscow Party bureau: "The abominable cunning agents of the class enemies, the coward scum of the former Zinoviev anti-Party group, have torn Comrade Kirov from our ranks. We will stamp out every one of the vile counter-revolutionary followers...
Instead it has been necessary for Eng land's King George V to extend his protection to Outcast Helen. By the King-Emperor's command she was invited to Marina's wedding and King Carol was ostentatiously snubbed (TIME, Dec...