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...Britain, no ally of the Czechs is, however, a customer of the Brno factory which manufactures the type of machine guns in question, the "Bren," light as an automatic rifle with unequaled freedom from jamming. The British Army recently adopted the Bren gun, planning to import the patterns and tools for their production in England. But Britain's haste in armament was such that she felt obliged to place large interim orders with the small Brno factory. As a big customer she might well have demanded that small customer Portugal should not be allowed to place an order that...
Having, after 21 years of aggressive propaganda, persuaded Federal courts that it is not illegal to import, sell, ship or mail contraceptive articles "which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients...
...would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
Four years ago Archbishop Mooney was recalled from Tokyo, apparently for reasons of secular diplomacy. The diocese of Rochester fell vacant and the Pope as signed Archbishop Mooney to fill it. Of larger import, however, was the fact that his fellow bishops soon made him a member of the administrative board, presently board chairman, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That body launches and maintains such "Catholic Action" projects as the Legion of Decency and is the sounding-board of the U. S. hierarchy, lately stipulating to lay Catholics that it and it alone may speak the policies...
Their sympathies aroused by the removal of 4,000 Basque refugee children from Bilbao to England last fortnight (TIME, May 31), a group of U. S. liberals revealed last week that they had formed an American Board of Guardians for Basque Refugee Children and were planning to import 500 young Basques to the U. S. Leaders in this movement of mercy were onetime New Dealer Gardner Jackson, New York's representative Caroline O'Day, Retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, Professor James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University. A French ship was reported...