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First committee business was to pronounce "null & void" the agreement signed last March by Czech President Emil Hacha. which made Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. The Committee can now conscript Czechs and Slovaks living in France and Great Britain into a Czechoslovak Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: New Ally | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Smith Committee heard Joe Ozanic, president of A. F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers, bitterly proclaim that the Wagner Act and NLRB decisions had put thousands of Progressive miners under the jurisdiction of John Lewis' United Mine null They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitterly protesting an NLRB decision, but stating he would take no further action because he did not want to jeopardize his fine relations with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...middle of the isthmus, near Punnuojoki, the Russians attacked in waves. The Finns stood their ground behind their granite-slab defenses, finally sent them running. The Finns said they took 33 tanks at Loimola and on the isthmus, three of them null In 17 days' fighting they claimed to have captured 250 Russian tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Soldiers, Arise! | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Eleven stirring, martial notes, the opening phrase of one of Composer Frederic null Chopin's Polonaises, sounded every 30 seconds from the Warsaw radio station all last week to let the world know that Poland's capital was still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Blitzkrieger | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...between Catholics and non-Catholics, requires certain promises from the non-Catholic before granting a dispensation for the union. In Quebec, 85% Catholic, a combination of these facts has operated in recent years to the disadvantage of non-Catholics and their clergy. Many a mixed marriage, upon being declared null & void by church courts, has in turn been annulled by civil courts. To justify such annulments, many Catholics hold that the religious principles of old French law have been perpetuated in three Canadian constitutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marriage in Quebec | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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