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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break on Page One felt there was no need to consider Lindbergh's feelings. He did not expect it, but the final act of the tragedy was also his final embitterment. The night after he had identified the body of his son in the Trenton morgue, two photographers got into the building and attempted to take pictures of the body...
...peace was broken, Lindbergh again blamed the U. S. press. After the Munich agreement, a radical mimeograph published in London the charge that a semiofficial report made by Lindbergh at a banquet of the Cliveden Set influenced Britain's decision to assent to the CzechoSlovak grab. The story got more attention in the U. S. than in Europe. Liberals denounced...
Parliament howled long & loud last month when it first got wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...
...Netherlands, where De Bilt Observatory labels any temperature above 88° as "tropical," the thermometer registered 93°. At The Hague, retired Dutch colonials got out their old tropical outfits, relics of Java days; schools were closed afternoons, and young boys stripped and dived into the city's canals to cool off. The Hague used 50% more water than usual...
...apologize for entering the Kalgan war zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...