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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his bags all packed and his steamer passage to the U. S. engaged, Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium last week pushed through his Parliament's lower house a bill granting amnesty to those Flemish separatists still in jail or suffering loss of civic rights as a result of negotiating with the enemy during the German occupation...
Handlebar-mustached Senjuro Hayashi, leader of the "Gold Braid Cabinet" of generals and admirals which took office last January, was Japan's No. 1 exponent of military aggressiveness. In four short months the gold braids outraged the civilian party politicians, high-handedly suspended the Diet's lower house, forced an election, lost it but insisted on staying in office (TIME...
Before they heard this bad news, the Senate had been thrown into a turmoil when four days earlier the lower house passed the most sweeping amnesty bill in Cuba's history. Under its provisions thousands of prisoners awaiting trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay...
Only outright "gangsters and terrorists" were excluded from the bill. This provoked an ironical outburst from Representative Manuel Penabas and several other members of the anti-Batista bloc in the lower house, who claimed that they were being threatened by the Boss's musclemen. Cried Representative Penabas: "We are armed for any eventuality...
...type. Lumbering, ungraceful things with highly tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia's planes are those she has bought abroad and adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been outmaneuvered by Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete...