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...under the title of "Keeping Cool," takes up scientific and social problems from a point of view which cannot allow any segregation of the two. Professor Haldane's career as a scientist has been remarkable, both in its scientific and non-scientific aspects; he gave aid to the Spanish Loyalist Government as a consultant in the problem of gas attacks, and as a lecturer in Britain; he has been a consistent fighter against Fascism, at home and abroad; and he is the last man of research who has resisted evacuation from University College, London...
...from Russia, rushed Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to the Kremlin, where he is well liked. But was there time to get help from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid. He got a chilly reception and exiled Loyalist Alvárez del Vayo cracked: "The mission of a failure." Women and children were already being evacuated from Gibraltar, whose garrison the German-planted guns in Algeciras may try to blow into the sea before long...
Bridges assailed the newest Cabinet member particularly for dropping charges against 17 Detroit residents charged with recruiting soldiers for the Spanish Loyalist Government in connection with the late Spanish civil war, while prosecuting charges against 17 members of the allegedly fascistic Christian Front in New York...
...produced, The Fifth Column told of Philip Rawlings, a U. S. newspaper man doing counter-espionage work for the Loyalists in Madrid.* Rawlings' job has got him down. He meets an American girl, rapes her in a fit of drunken violence, then falls madly in love with her. Against the pleas and warnings of his superiors, he plans to desert his job and clear out with the girl. At the last minute he is free to do so, because of a Loyalist order releasing all foreign volunteers from service. Then, from a sense of honor and devotion...
...Nebraska's aging George W. Norris rose in the Senate and declared: "Frankly I am worried about the activities of this Bureau." What worried him were recent arrests by G-Men in Detroit of 16 persons on charges of having assisted volunteers to enlist in the Loyalist Army in Spain...