Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME, Oct. 12, et ante)? And what about the Congress' vote to boycott every festivity connected with the Coronation (TIME...
...good omen in Spain last week that this distressing state of Miaja affairs ended without another such butchery as had already wiped out, in both White and Red territory, some 120,000 innocent non-combatants in Spain's savage, stalemated civil war (TIME, July 27 et seq.). A quiet little deal was arranged by General Miaja through intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great...
...feet. Great Democrat Adolf Hitler recently described Germany as ''the perfect Democracy." Great Democrat Joseph Stalin recently gave his Soviet Union what he called "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World," then riveted his dictatorship tighter by the shooting of 13 Old Bolsheviks (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante...
...96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME, Jan. 18 et...
...more or less settle down in three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters of the Young Marshal's standard were killing their officers, as many of these were not so eager as their...