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...commanders and Italian aviators, heartily weary of the overpublicized exploits of Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow Homer, back of Manassas...
...American Olympic Committee asked Germany to fulfill four conditions before it agreed to send a team to Berlin this summer. Mr. Bingham's article this morning shows that intelligent men with first-hand information believe that the Nazi Government has fulfilled these pledges...
...Prison in San Francisco Bay by the deportation order with which President Roosevelt purged Federal prisons of 151 aliens last month (TIME, Aug. 5) was one William Henry Ambrose, onetime Chicago drug peddler. Before he was shipped back to his native England last week Convict Ambrose gave newshawks a first-hand picture of life inside the great, grey fortress-prison reserved for the most dangerous Federal criminals in the land. Excerpts...
...hours the Sprengstoff continued to explode. Every explosion caused a new fire, every fire a new explosion. Telephone connections were cut off and iron-clad censorship clamped on all news dispatches. Secret police reached the scene almost as quickly as the ambulances, closeted foreign correspondents who attempted to gather first-hand news. The Associated Press did succeed in getting to the bewildered Burgomaster of Reinsdorf while the town still burned. His account...
...Anglo-Saxons, Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham are the authorities, as far as novels go, on the East Indies. For Dutchmen, Madelon Lulofs tells the tale. Born in Sumatra, she writes of Holland's "other world" with first-hand knowledge...