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...worst international crisis since the War, the League of Nations has done all that was expected of it--nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...
...search for her King Charles's head. Author Stern shakes several likely candidates out of her grab-bag. One is a childhood desire to be included in the glorious goings-on of a large but mythical family of Rectory Children. One is a sturdy feminine contempt for what she dubs the Peter Pannery of the typical Englishman. And one is the Dreyfus Case, which fascinated her not only because she was a Jew but because she was a young contemporary of its long-drawn-out events. When the three lines of her association-autobiography have crossed, the King Charles...
...Chairman James O. McKinsey revealed that the wholesale division had lost no less than $12,000,000 in the past five years. Butler's President Cunningham, in Florida last week for a quick vacation, must have had a few chuckles over that Field report, for he expects to grab off a fat slice of the business Field has abandoned...
...Philadelphia Inquirer is known as the ''Bible of Pennsylvania Republicanism." In the heat of last autumn's state campaign, the Inquirer declared that "law partners and associates of Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General and political bludgeon of the Earle Democratic Administration, are out to grab a tax collection authority which may net them millions in the next four years...
...Francisco convention last year, the "triple alliance" sought and was given readmission. That called for re-election of officers within the Department, a move which brought howls from the Department President Michael John McDonough and the small unions within the Department which knew that the "triple alliance" would grab control of the Department just as soon as it got back into the fold...