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...rights to Rightist Spain, any interference with U. S. shipping (as well as French or British) by the Rightist navy or air force would, under international law, be an "act of piracy." Legal niceties have not prevented Generalissimo Francisco Franco, however, from bombing British and French ships and seizing Scandinavian ships, although so far. with few exceptions, he has let U. S. shipping alone...
...League. In Geneva, members of the British delegation and others rumored that at Godesberg last week (see p. 16), Mr. Chamberlain was urging that any European settlement reached with Herr Hitler be "crowned" by having Germany resume membership in a League of Nations now somewhat "revised." Such revision the Scandinavian states launched by announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join in applying sanctions to an aggressor. Last week the British delegate, Mr. Richard Austen Butler, served formal notice that His Majesty's Government back this new interpretation, while maintaining that "The Covenant...
...taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which has gripped so many Europeans, the Scandinavian States were actually busy at Geneva last week trying to get the League Covenant reinterpreted so that in no case would any country be "bound" to apply sanctions, which instead would be declared "optional." In these circumstances Premier Daladier, whose Radical Socialist Party is proverbially the middle-of-the-road...
...George Nichols' three-month-old Goose, U. S. six-metre defender: the Scandinavian Gold Cup series. No. 1 international sailing event in years when there is no challenge for the more famed America's Cup; defeating boats representing Norway, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain; on Long Island Sound, off Oyster...
STOREVIK-Gøsta af Geijerstam-Dutton ($2). Life on a Norway fjord: a bucolic Scandinavian approximation to the simplicity and fresh charm of Mrs. Roosevelt's column...