Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing a private conference of Laborite M. P.s, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Clement R. Attlee put first on his list of Opposition aims the idea of federation. Next day Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax broadcast to the world what were supposed to be Britain's official aims-and federation was not among them...
...Nazi press chose to ignore the Comintern's attitude (although the U. S. S. R. had just been asked to take down Dimitroff's pictures), adopting the convenient fiction that the Third International does not necessarily represent the Kremlin. In London, on the other hand, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail gleefully headlined the Comintern's pronouncements: "Hitler takes a few more kicks from his friend Stalin...
...clock one afternoon last week a large crowd gathered on Berlin's Unter den Linden, in front of the U. S. S. R. Embassy, to watch big limousines pull up and discharge swankily dressed passengers. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and 30 of his Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented...
...engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy's guests were not disappointed this time...
Married. Lady Anne Hope, 25, daughter of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; and Lieutenant P. H. J. Southby, R. N., 26, aide to the Marquess, son of Sir Archibald Southby, M. P.; in New Delhi, India. After the ceremony, the Marquess, in viceregal tradition, treated 5,000 Delhi poor to a meal...