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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teutons naturally dislike Latins, more specifically Italians dislike Germans, and last week Der Führer and II Duce worked like stevedores to keep their peoples sold on the Rome-Berlin Axis. The press of the world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened. For a member of the Cabinet to hand the P.M. an ultimatum is something which in London simply isn't done-but nervous Britons were willing to admit that, if it ever is, Hore-Belisha is the sort...
...Japanese, as they have done time and again in the last eight months, continued to keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until...
Lauding Miss X for her "extraordinary courage," Mr. Justice Hawke cried: "I think she has done a great service to her country...
...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...