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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the German press called Sir Edmund's visit a "secret council of war" and railed against "English interference" and "blustering." More German and Polish military activity was noticeable in and around Danzig, and German Air Marshal Hermann Göring announced that this year's German air maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien...
...four months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more than her leaders. In three years she had lsot...
Said Frank Buchman: ''Tonight you are going to witness the preview of a new world order." To anyone who had ever attended a Buchmanite meeting, the preview itself was not new, although as usual it featured some new names. M. G. M.'s Louis Burt Mayer spoke up for MRA-as Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays had done at a luncheon given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed...
...News, "almost painfully exquisite." They were a Chinese girl, a Japanese man who, after speaking their pieces, shook hands, stood silently smiling. The Bowl audience, predominantly middleclass, was equally pleased when Charles Copperman, boss of the Imperial Valley Teamsters' Union (A. F. of L.), vowed his friendship for G. G. Bennett, president of the Imperial Valley branch of the reactionary Associated Farmers...
Fortnight after the issue hit London newsstands, 63-year-old Charles Grey Grey announced his resignation (effective some months hence). His sole comment: "Only the directors of Temple Press Ltd. [his publishers], not even C. G. Grey, know why I'm resigning." But British airmen only marveled that the divorce had not occurred sooner...