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Little work, much fun was planned for the 800 delegates of 60 countries attending this latest four-day congress. From Germany came 200 delegates, from Rumania 30, from Rightist Spain 20. The U. S. was represented-unofficially-by five delegates, chief of whom was former Track Athlete Gustavus Town Kirby, treasurer of the last U. S. Olympic committee, for 35 years chairman of the advisory Intercollegiate Athletic Association, president of the First World Congress for Recreation. Largely responsible for a big amusement program was the athletic, sporty Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace who is also president of the After-Work...
...Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently as popular and Parliamentary indignation rose (see p. 21) over the mounting casualties among British seamen sailing supplies to Leftist Spain...
Stressed at the Italian Foreign Office was the diplomatic nicety that Rightist Spain was an independent country, also hinted was the idea that Generalissimo Franco might choose to ignore Friend Mussolini's "advice." Result last week, however, of Dictator Mussolini's "discreet influence" was that no more British ships were bombed, no more British lives lost...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...week called attention to a widening split among Catholics over Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest...