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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relations. Sly General von Schleicher had reasons for selecting Baron von Gayl and Lieut. Colonel von Papen. The smooth von Papen married the niece of a French Marquis. He speaks almost perfect French. He has many French friends and much money invested in French concerns. Baron von Gayl is descended from an Andreas Gail of Cologne, ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail...
...more potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
Papal encyclicals have been frequent during Depressions. The present Pope has not hesitated to denounce the evils of Capitalism. Though Papal utterances seldom descend to the denunciation of individuals, the collapse of Ivar Kreuger's crooked match empire (TIME, March 21 et seq.) was so fresh in the minds of the "Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and other Ordinaries'' to whom His Holiness addressed himself, that few doubted that Suicide Kreuger* was in the Pope's mind when he wrote: "If what the Holy Ghost affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more...
...depends what you want when you go to the theatre. The Pulitzer Prize will probably never descend upon the benign person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind...
Tomorrow, students from twenty-five eastern Universities will descend upon Providence to partake in the fifth annual League of Nations Model Assembly Council of New England Colleges. In swift succession of meetings most of the major international problems confronting the world will be discussed, solutions will be debated, and votes taken. The avowed purpose of the founders of the Model League is to animate matters ordinarily embalmed in newspaper headlines and magazine summaries, to initiate participants in the mechanical aspects of the League, and to give opportunity for diplomatic and international talking and thinking...