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...Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They...
...eyewitness with the Leftist forces close to the front last week was Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer, who later contrived to get the following out uncensored: "This correspondent saw the retreat of a whole division of Republican forces turn to flight-a flight which lasted ten hours before any visible attempt was made to check it. There were no officers in sight...
...Mowrer had just been to the headquarters of the Spanish commander of the 35th Leftist Division who told him with a wry smile: "Yes, I am here; my staff is here; everybody is here except the 35th division...
Other points from Eyewitness Mowrer: "Three officers in plain khaki uniforms, devoid of any insignia whatever, came into the room and talked in Russian and made pencil marks on the map stretched over the table...
...guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual assistance treaty between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power. ... It is safe to say that never since the end of the Franco-Prussian war has Europe had less confidence in the ability of France to maintain its present position...