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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's foreign policy," says Harold Nicolson, British M. P., essayist, novelist, onetime diplomat, "is to acquire by negotiation an importance greater than can be supplied by her own physical strength. It is thus the antithesis of the German system, since instead of basing diplomacy on power she bases power on diplomacy. It is the antithesis of the French system, since instead of striving to secure permanent allies against a permanent enemy, she regards her allies and her enemies as interchangeable. It is the antithesis of the British system, since it is not durable credit that she seeks...
Last week Mexico forgot war for the nonce as the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) convened to choose a candidate for next July's presidential election, and to build him a platform. Usually the selection of a P. R. M. candidate is all that is needed to assure his election...
...agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January...
...ever did: he went to an airdrome and, in a hangar, personally decorated five members of the R. A. F. Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished...
...admitted why one prisoner (alone among 6,000) was allowed to wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished." The barber cried: "I'm the boss!" with that fell dead of a heart attack...