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A few moments later in St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, Alfred M. Landon took the platform, accompanied for the first time in the campaign by his wife and his daughter. The crowd shouted in frenzy. "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Finale | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Success with Spain. The same "Tammany" forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: A Bit of Jugglery | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

"The principles evolved by the French Revolution of 1789 have spread over the entire world," polished and rational Orator Blum cried. "Those who condemn them often unknowingly profit from them. Without the civil liberty that the French Revolution proclaimed, the authoritarian States of Europe would not today have at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Democratic Peace | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Finally Leon Blum reaffirmed those principles which Benito Mussolini, with his conquest of Ethiopia, and Japan, with her seizure of Manchukuo, have tried to make seem old-fashioned and even silly. "French Peace supposes for all nations Liberty for self-determination!" cried Orator Blum. "It supposes Equality of right between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Democratic Peace | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Four Nazi Years. As usual the Party Congress was not opened by Leader Hitler who sat in the audience, but by his apple-cheeked deputy leader Rudolf Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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