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Meanwhile, the London Daily Herald, newsorgan of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, angrily editorialized that the British Government had secretly "recognized" the Franco Government, getting ahead of Britain's own Scheme to recognize only Franco's belligerent rights. "This is a monstrous and disgraceful decision," cried the Herald. "Recognition of belligerent rights was a concession-a bribe if you like-to be paid for the withdrawal of volunteers, after the withdrawal. Now an even more far-reaching form of recognition is given in advance. The lever which might have secured withdrawal is flung away...
Captain James Job Trolley is a tall, leathery pioneer eccentric, complete with cape and beaver hat, whose "monstrous antics" and windy wit have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes...
Jews have always read this Balfour Declaration one way, Arabs have always read it the opposite way, and among neutral statesmen opinion has long been unanimous that the late Lord Balfour perpetrated one of history's most monstrous ambiguities, a weasel which has drenched Palestine in strife for 20 years. This week neutral opinion had not yet crystallized, but widely His Majesty's Government was beginning to receive credit for honest efforts to simply cut with one harsh stroke the Palestine Knot...
...discouraged to enter. Last week, as the 25th James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race got under way in Brussels, there was again no U. S. entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany. Two days later all had jolted to earth with Poland's Polonia II and Belgium's Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race...
Almost to a man the Prime Minister's Conservative Party cracked down on the tax. It was described as "monstrous," as "the most disastrous proposal any government has put forward since the War." Only one Government supporter praised the measure-Sir John Simon, who as newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer had to speak well of it. Neville Chamberlain was in the unenviable position of being opposed by the Party of which he had been appointed leader that very...