Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that their query came too late. New King Edward stands not for more British censorship but for less. In His Majesty's official Court Circular the name of Mrs. Simpson made its appearance and was not snipped out of London papers (TIME, June 8). Next the British news weekly Cavalcade came out with Mrs. Simpson in five columns. This issue sold like hot cakes on the respected stands of W. H. Smith & Sons, the circulation of Cavalcade boomed and last week its editors were said to feel that their new magazine had definitely turned the financial corner...
Vienna correspondents had only just begun to suspect what was in the pot last week when it was dished out, to the surprise of all Europe. "Chancellor Hitler is giving way to Premier Mussolini on Austria," came the first news smuggled out of Vienna to the London office of the New York Times. "Hitler quite suddenly has reversed his whole policy toward Vienna...
...neither did subsequent official announcements. A so-called "summary," but not the text of what had been signed, was issued, and officials admitted that this summary did not cover "secret" clauses which exist in the pact. Trying to guess, the world press lashed itself into reams of rhetoric-eminent News Pundit Edwin L. James asking seven rhetorical questions and peppering his profound analysis with...
Shocking to all Europe this week and fraught with danger of fresh revolution in Spain was news that men uniformed as Government Assault Guards had atrociously murdered Royalist Leader Jose Calvo Sotelo. onetime Finance Minister to the late Dictator Primo de Rivera. Bursting into his home, they kidnapped Senor Calvo Sotelo in an Assault Guard's truck, butchered him with clubs, knives, bullets and dumped his mangled carcass in the Madrid Municipal Cemetery...
...Japanese Press announced with indignation last week that the long fingers of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, have now dipped into China as well as into the Balkans (TIME, June 29 et seq.). The official Japanese Domei news agency put on its wires that China and Germany have just signed a trade pact with three clauses...