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In London Westminster Abbey's caretakers crated the 600-year-old Coronation Chair in which George VI was crowned, and trundled it away. The British Museum closed; so did the National Gallery; and motor lorries filled with books and paintings rumbled out of London. Canterbury Cathedral's stained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wires Down | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Instead, Mayor Jarman (himself a professional photographer and restorer of paintings) locked the doors of the room where the pictures were hung, imprisoning the artist's raincoat and lunch. Munnings retired, red-faced, returned presently with a motor lorry, demanded his own 15 can vases. Onto the lorry he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint Blush | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Army of the Po | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

> The Territorial Army, fully mechanized, started on Britain's greatest peacetime maneuvers. Trucks, radio cars, ambulance convoys, cyclists rumbled through ordinarily quiet rural roads as 135.000 men began a fortnight's training period which will end with a "battle" with an "invading" army from Wales.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bravo Iron! | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Old Senator Borah (74 last fortnight) opened the Senate fight to keep Franklin Roosevelt haltered by getting up and reading one of his rare written speeches. Two days before, the President had declared that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 34 in a Lair | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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