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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benito Mussolini is piqued, so is the whole Italian press. Last week Il Duce's annoyance at the good show Democracy was putting on in Paris caused many Italian papers to omit accounts of the British royal visit, provoked one to attribute this apocryphal quote to Queen Elizabeth: "I haven't seen anything but the horses of our guards...
...gathered in little knots on the sidewalk near Bogoyavlenie Church, gaping in amazement last week as Orthodox dignitaries blandly celebrated a requiem high mass for the late Rumanian Dowager Queen Marie. This was accompanied by loud, priestly chanting clearly audible some distance from the church. So far as the press could learn, there has been no such honoring of royalty in Moscow since the Revolution -yet last-week the famed Communist Union of Militant Atheists took it lying down. The Secret Police kept hands off, evidently on instructions. In his youth, Joseph Stalin studied for the Orthodox priesthood, but that...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...
...News will carry features of North American Newspaper Alliance, United Feature, Bell Syndicate; but for general news it will rely solely on Transradio Press Service. While the choice of Transradio was dictated by economy rather than preference, for Transradio Press the event is a milestone: never before in its turbulent four-year history has a daily in a big U. S. city used it exclusively...
Transradio President Herbert Samuel Moore, 33, had reason to be pleased. Four years ago, former U. P. Correspondent Moore found himself jobless when Columbia Broadcasting System abandoned its news service to join National Broadcasting Co. in the Press-Radio Agreement which limited news broadcasts to twice-daily, five-minute summaries supplied by Associated Press, United Press and Inter national News Service. Moore, deciding to buck this restriction, got financial backing, started Transradio as an independent service with no publishing or broadcasting affiliations. "We are fighting for freedom of the press of the air," he announced...