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...Francisco Largo Caballero who has spent most of his time in recent weeks dressed in blue overalls fighting with the Red militia amid the Guadarrama Mountains in efforts to keep the Whites from capturing Madrid. New Premier Largo Caballero announced weeks ago that the Madrid Government, if victorious, would proclaim in Spain "the dictatorship of the proletariat" and essentially a Spanish Soviet regime...
...this the General Confederation of Labor in Greece had declared their formal opposition. The strike was supposed to be in protest against a royal decree under which in Greece arbitration of all labor disputes has now been made compulsory. Just before midnight Premier Metaxas successfully scotched a strike by proclaiming martial law throughout Greece. Parliament was dissolved, the Cabinet omitting to proclaim when elections would take place. Liberals felt that King George had, by signing the necessary papers, made General Metaxas his Dictator...
...Berlin's huge Olympic Stadium, packed by 110,000 spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner...
Hard-headed Charlie Taft scoffs at the idea of a U. S. autocracy or Fascism. To him Al Smith, Mark Sullivan and Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement...
...raise pay. Soon they heard that similar meetings were being held in Manhattan, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Result was American Newspaper Guild, founded in December 1933 with shaggy, drawling Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun as its president. Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates representing the 4,200 Guildmen in good standing voted 84-10-5 for affiliation with the American...