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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Acts of War | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Last week Germany showed that she had overplayed her unemployment solution, had actually created a labor shortage. Scheduled for immediate execution under the Four-Year Plan is the building of the Hermann Göring Iron Works, the production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Vital Interests | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

When the bloody bubble of Dublin's Easter Rising fizzled out in 1916, it left a number of ruined buildings, a few snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Shocker | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Prime sample of Nazi conjuring at the anti-Schuschnigg exhibit at Tulln last week was a goggling, cadaver-like effigy of the former Chancellor cruelly tagged "Comical Kurt." Elsewhere, Nazi investigators were tirelessly conjuring up a case to link Kurt un-comically with the execution in 1934 of a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anschluss Art | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

¶ From the Russian revolution: a jerky, 20-year-old shot, shown before in the U. S. in Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937) of the execution of nine men, three at a clip. Standing on the brink of a deep, wide grave, they face the firing squad stolidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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