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...last fights fought by the late Royal S. Copeland was for adequate antiaircraft equipment for the army. As Senator from New York, he could well visualize what might happen to the topless towers of Manhattan if enemy bombers ever laid eggs among them. Inland Senators were apathetic, but other coast Senators agreed. He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went...
...Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
Harry Bridges also was in trouble with his own people last week. Having carried his "inland march" from his original waterfront stamping ground to the point where he bosses C. I. O. in California, he has encountered much antagonism among garment, auto, other unions. Last week the leaders of four Los Angeles locals (automobiles, rubber, garments, shoes) seceded from his California Industrial Union Council, charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty...
This week, as the heat lessened, the Rightists launched one of the most powerful assaults of the war. Along a ten-mile stretch on the farthest inland portion of the Ebro front, the Rightists hammered their way forward aided by strafing planes, hurled the Leftists back across the river and placed themselves in a position to make the rest of the Leftists' Ebro line untenable. Some 7,000 Leftists were reported killed, wounded or captured. Leftists claimed, however, that their offensive had upset Franco's summer plans and destroyed the possibility of a Franco victory before...
Economic Deviltry. Under Japan's puppet Governments in Nanking and in Peking, according to dispatches, companies dominated by Japanese officials are being given monopoly franchises to operate utilities in Nanking and vicinity, many Chinese mines and virtually all inland shipping on the lower Yangtze. Owners of the properties were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium...