Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day Lord Stanhope appeared early at No. 10 Downing Street for a 4O-minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
Thousands of Iraqi crowded Bagdad's dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will...
...alleged act was political or criminal. They were also reported to be pondering whether to exchange Colonel Lister for a French Communist Deputy who had been imprisoned at Alicante. If France either extradites or exchanges Colonel Lister, it was taken for granted that the Loyalist hero's next last-ditch stand would be before a firing squad...
...Next to William Henry Donald, onetime Australian newsman (TIME, Dec. 23, 1936), Missionary Shepherd is today the closest white collaborator of Mme Chiang Kaishek. Last week he was in the U. S. on a speaking tour. In a precise, controlled voice, Mr. Shepherd spoke part of his piece on the radio last week at a New York Advertising Club luncheon. Its gist: "Left to themselves, the Japanese will never subjugate China. With the assistance of America [i.e. with U. S. scrap iron, other war materials], I sometimes fear that Japan will temporarily win this war. I find it difficult...
...England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...