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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
Though passports of the sort which enable their holders to leave Russia are rarer than rubies in the Soviet Union, every Russian must carry at all times the sort of passport which confirms his right to live & work where he does live & work in Russia. Last week in the Soviet Union no other news was half so big as an announcement by the Moscow Government that before Jan. 14, 1936 every Soviet citizen must have his domestic passport renewed...
...last time this was done, the State forced some 600,000 Russians to move out of the great and fairly comfortable cities of Moscow and Leningrad by handing them new passports stating that they could live & work only on farms or in the smaller, pioneer cities (TIME, May 8, 1933). To make this mass passport process even harsher, Russians who had to surrender their old passports could not get new ones unless they rehearsed their entire life histories and proved that they were not enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone who turned out to be such an "enemy...
...really trust. Obligingly the State Department supplied a list of young U. S. economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired at $9,000 per year, and went to live with his wife in a sizzling, tin-roofed bungalow. It was this pair, Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps, who persuaded and advised Emperor Power of Trinity last week to make a move which His Majesty sincerely hoped would bring Great Britain to Ethiopia's side this week in bluffing down...
...called for a secretary to prepare a proclamation commuting my sentence. But there was a question of whether I could sign it. Perhaps, I dreamed, the Lieutenant Governor in such a case would have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes. Guards started carrying me into the little green room. It was then that I awoke in a cold sweat...