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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini's growing Roman Empire last week grew a very little more. On Good Friday it absorbed the very little Balkan Kingdom of Albania. Only that and nothing more. Il Duce's coup was neither more nor less cynical and coldblooded than those of Adolf Hitler. But added to all that has taken place in recent months, this small plus quantity of aggression all but upset the status quo in Europe. The brink of war, already almost worn out with Europe's trembling, was trembled on once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Less than 50 miles across the narrow Straits of Otranto, at the Italian ports of Brindisi and Bari, gun crews were also active at the same hour. There, while warships, scores of other vessels, made ready to sail, heavy guns and men were loaded on transports. Three hundred and eighty-four warplanes stood by at airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: BIRTH & DEATH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...windy, frigid Patagonia, which stretches 1,000 miles down the Atlantic coast almost to Cape Horn. Seeing how their Führer grabs off huge bites of Europe, Nazi agents on other continents are prone to have big ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with a plan for annexing Patagonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Nazi Bungle | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...almost 100% in favor of China against Japan, contributions to China relief agencies are relatively as scarce as news of Chinese victories-today scarce indeed. U. S. sympathizers contributed more than $2,000,000 to Spain during its late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need of the barest sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FOR CHINA | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Wuthering Heights (United Artists-Sam Goldwyn). "A minor sensation has been caused by the announcement that the Hollywood film version of 'Wuthering Heights' is to be called Wuthering Heights. . . . The decision . . . [was] made by no less a person than Mr. Sam Goldwyn. Mr. Goldwyn is a legendary figure who has a fine autocratic way with the English language and chronology and things like that. . . . Still, the title is not everything; and its retention does not-witness among many others the conspicuous case of Bengal Lancer-at all imply that the film will be even remotely identifiable with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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