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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work for the restoration of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg dynasties. He wanted to be a modern Warwick-the-King-Maker and work on the European rather than the English field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would be diplomatic or military) would be Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Finnish Finish | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Trombone for this blast was the Pacific, official organ of a pseudo-liberal Japanese organization called the Institute of the Pacific.* The Institute is dominated by a dynamic, humorous politician named Yusuke Tsurumi, who can write 14,000 Japanese characters by hand in one day and can talk English faster than the late Floyd Gibbons could. The Institute was probably one of the chief catalytics last September in the appointment as Foreign Minister of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. Such an outfit is worth listening to. It said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dutch Tweak | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Owner and publisher of La Prensa is Don Ezequiel P. Paz, son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who founded the paper in 1869. (Argentina's oldest newspaper is the English-language Buenos Aires Standard, founded 1861.) Now past 65, childless Don Ezequiel leaves the active management of La Prensa to a nephew, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Until this year Don Ezequiel spent his winters at a French estate near Biarritz. For the sake of his diet he always carried with him a cow, sacrificed her as his ship entered the Rio de la Plata because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Because Irish, French and English military teams, old favorites with the fans, had a previous engagement this year (thus narrowing the international field to Mexican, Chilean, U. S. cavalrymen), the twelve principal civilian events for hunters and jumpers* received more than customary attention during the eight days of the show. Because 75% of the hunters and jumpers exhibited at U. S. horse shows nowadays are ridden by women, the spotlight focused on the jumping Jills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Women | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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