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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening move in this campaign was to permit, at long last, Spanish Delegate Julio Alvarez del Vayo to produce his White Book listing documentary evidence of Fascist intervention in Spain. These documents-mostly photostats of papers taken from captured soldiers-were almost completely limited to evidence of Italian intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland...
...Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though Premier last summer...
...reputation for himself in Santiago by angrily shooting a panther for misbehaving in a circus and by beating up a journalist who accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle...
...Del Monte, Calif., last week Ty Cobb entered the California Indians' Golf Tournament. He got a 77 in the second round, won the championship. 3½ up, from one W. W. Wurlburn in the final...
...annual stockholders' meeting of the world's largest motormaker last week in Wilmington, Del. there were not enough chairs to go round. It was not that General Motors' 342,384 stockholders had turned out to rule their company, but that in the room, on the seventh floor of the Du Pont Building, there were but 20 chairs at meeting time. Presiding was heavyset, florid John Thomas Smith, GM vice president and general counsel. Absent were President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and 30 other directors...