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Almost as disturbing to Spain's pudgy dictator were two lines in the London Daily Express, organ of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's great friend (and Lord Privy Seal) Lord Beaverbrook: "If Britain is wise she will allow the Spanish situation to evolve without active interference on her part. By so doing Britain will be able to take any advantage that may be offered by a change without assuming responsibility for its defects, its crimes or even its continued existence...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...
...hours after his tour of New York City (see above), Franklin Roosevelt appeared in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue. The diners-2,000 members and guests of the Foreign Policy Association-were already at their tables. The organ struck up Hail to the Chief; the diners rose, stood for seven minutes until Franklin Roosevelt was wheeled in to his place at the center of the head table...
...issue: should the C.C.L. endorse the socialist C.C.F. as the political organ of Canada's labor movement? At its convention a year ago the C.C.L. had plumped for the socialists by a thumping majority. But out to fight the socialists were Canada's pseudonymous Communists, the aggressive Labor Progressives, whose party line calls for all-out support of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Behind the Communists were the old-line Laborites (who believe that unions ought to stay out of politics), and the delegates from Catholic Quebec (who welcomed a chance to whittle down socialist strength...
...Then the organ's first notes trembled into the hush, began the solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...