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...score (you see, I keep up with the Current Events Test) on the June 20 test was 102 correct. One miss was in National Affairs, two in Foreign News. This compares with my former scores...
Little work, much fun was planned for the 800 delegates of 60 countries attending this latest four-day congress. From Germany came 200 delegates, from Rumania 30, from Rightist Spain 20. The U. S. was represented-unofficially-by five delegates, chief of whom was former Track Athlete Gustavus Town Kirby, treasurer of the last U. S. Olympic committee, for 35 years chairman of the advisory Intercollegiate Athletic Association, president of the First World Congress for Recreation. Largely responsible for a big amusement program was the athletic, sporty Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace who is also president of the After-Work...
...Great Britain today, even overshadowing the controversy around Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy, is the state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain's defense preparations will rock...
...Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, in which the groom was represented by his brother, is not valid:* the Countess was ordered separated from Dr. Schuschnigg because, as a "good Catholic," Commissioner Bürckel "could not tolerate such immorality." Asked if friends were permitted to visit the former Chancellor, the Commissioner coldly replied: "He has no friends...
...Syria's capital, Damascus, Arab leaders called for a policy of noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...