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...globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range...
...ominous look? Are all democracies expected to go on a jag every generation or so ? Do Viewers-with-Alarm expect Federal finances to go haywire ? Failing to have his way with the Supreme Court, the Executive Department and now the Senate, is the President expected to resort to a putsch to perpetuate his policies? Are the Nazis suspected of a plan to sabotage American aid to France and England when Der Tag arrives...
...considering for its first paid president such assorted personages as North Carolina's onetime Governor O. Max Gardner ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, this was something of a surprise. To Wall Street, however, it seemed the logical climax of the liberal Putsch which has conquered the Exchange in the last six months...
...Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
Immediate search was begun for cadaverous-faced, black-mustached Plinio Salgado, the "Supreme Chief of the Green Shirts" who has been in hiding since Vargas outlawed the movement as a political party (TIME, Nov. 22). At last reports Salgado was still hiding. Arrested as leaders of the Putsch were Belmiro Valdeverde, chief of the "Revolutionary Dissident Wing" of the Party, and Admiral Eduardo Taveres...