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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: New Allies | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...reports that the Nazi-Fascist military pact might soon become a tripower one appeared to some observers to have been strengthened by disclosure today that Hitler and Franco have agreed to negotiate an important trade agreement by which Germany hopes to attain a predominant economic position in reconstructed Spain...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Hitler Woos Spain | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia has one of the worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: After Czecho-Slovakia | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Hays is the ultimate in open-mindedness, perhaps, to an extent obnoxious to certain boosters of "Americanism." Though certainly not a Communist nor a Fascist, he respects their rights "not because they believe in freedom of speech, press and assemblage, but because I do." Perhaps, Mr. Hays has such faith in democracy that he is tempting the devil too far. But in the face of reaction that breeds upon Nazi and Red propaganda-frights, "Democracy Works" is refreshingly liberal, and a book that deserves attention...

Author: By L. L., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

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