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These territorial readjustments had been promised Italy 20 years before in return for Italy's joining the Allies. But the concessions were never made because Foreign Minister Laval was booted out and Parliament refused to ratify his dealings with II Duce. Last week II Duce took occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which...
...Cambridge, fellow students, hopelessly out-argued, called him Thomas Babble-tongue. In his sos he was a leading contributor to the powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying...
...Before Parliament adjourned for its Christmas recess, to meet again on January 31, youthful Dominions & Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald warned the House of Commons that Britain must soon find a policy to increase her birth rate for the "highest imperial reasons." "I confess I cannot do anything about it," added Mr. MacDonald, a bachelor...
...Chiang Kai-shek issued a blunt warning to Great Britain that unless China received aid in the form of money or supplies, he would be forced to line up still closer with Soviet Russia. Last week this warning produced results. In Britain a bill was on its way through Parliament which will enable the Government to extend sizable export credits to China. From the U. S. also came a $25,000,000 loan (much of which undoubtedly will be used to buy U. S. trucks and motor parts) granted by the New Deal's Export-Import Bank-interpreted...
...decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...