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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women of all classes are welcome, sits nowadays clicking her needles benignly amid an assortment of serving maids, duchesses, peasants' wives, princesses, cooks...
Meanwhile, not all Hungary's troubles were with the Communists. In an important by-election the demonstrative Andrew Mecser, known as "Hitler's personal representative in Budapest," was decisively defeated for the Lower Chamber. Next day Führer Adolf Hitler showed his displeasure at the defeat by conferring on Herr Mecser the German Order of the Eagle...
Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...
Died. Lorin Wright, 77, little-known elder brother of the famed Orville and the late Wilbur Wright, business genius for his plane-brained brothers in their early manufacturing days; after long illness; in Dayton, Ohio...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness; in London...