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Most important political upset was the removal from office of General Vincencio Pérez Soto, Governor of Zulia, by hollow-cheeked Provisional President Eleazar López Contreras. In Zulia lie practically all Venezuela's oil wells. General Pérez Soto was a politico in whom U. S., British and Dutch oil companies had largely invested. He was generally considered to be the strongest man in the country. He took his removal quietly last week-and waited...
...time ago friends of democracy were very much on the defensive, and shaken by the rise of dictators under various political labels. Now, however, there is cause for revived hope and aggressiveness of democrats everywhere. Mosley does not flourish in Britain, Huey Long is dead, and France junks its politico-military menaces. In those countries where democracy has struck its roots down deep over the course of centuries, hybrid foreign importations of the Stalin or Hitler variety wither in an unfavorable clime...
Ever since great Marshal Josef Pilsudski's death last spring the Polish Government has been a Dictatorship without a Dictator. Last week the politico-military "Pilsudski Colonels," who rule with the kudos of the late Marshal, prudently decided to make some slight concessions to democratic Polish public opinion. Quietly, Colonel Walery Slawek resigned as Premier, was succeeded by his onetime Minister of Interior, Citizen Marjan Zyndram Koscialkowski. not a "Pilsudski Colonel." In the new Cabinet this week most of the Colonels kept their portfolios. But Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who has conducted Polish foreign policy for several years...
...Nanchang one of the great air bases of the Far East, climate or no climate. In Colonel Jouett's Aviation School near Hangchow over 200 definitely top-notch Chinese fighting flyers were developed by intensive training and ruthless examinations which made enemies of many a Chinese general and politico whose air-ambitious son was flunked out. This year when Colonel Jouett's contract expired, Generalissimo Chiang declined to renew it, has now turned his air force over to native officials and Italian experts under Rome's suave General Lordi. This switch resulted directly from efforts by Benito...
When a Japanese artist bedded with a humble parlormaid in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the auspicious result was Japan's greatest politico-financier, His Excellency Korekiyo Takahashi. Last week Finance Minister Takahashi explained that 10,000,000,000 yen is about the limit of internal Government bond issues which Japan can conceivably absorb, and she has now absorbed 8,650,000,000. Mr. Takahashi based his calculations on the fact that Japan's national wealth is about 110,000,000,000 yen and her national income about...