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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their chairman, Victor Alexander George Robert, second Earl of Lytton, first drew breath at Simla, the summer capital of British India, while his father was Viceroy 56 years ago. In 1925 lean, scholarly Lord Lytton was himself Viceroy of India for five months. He knows his East. Release of the Lytton Report last week stirred the deepest interest of both East and West. If the League of Nations, which sent out the Lytton Commission, now proceeds to accept its findings and back up its recommendations, the League, threatened today with financial bank- ruptcy (see p. 13), has a last chance...
With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
...Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw, took no officers prisoners. Each Kosciuszko pilot carried a vial of potassium cyanide in case...
...thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side, he harmonized in Bowery saloons for handouts, sang in Brooklyn beer halls, church and lodge benefits, finally in vaudeville and the Silver Slipper nightclub with his partners Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton. Connoisseurs of loony comedy have long cherished his phonograph records...
Died. Anthony Paul Kelly, 35. playwright (Three Faces East, The Battle Royal); by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Reason: tuberculosis...