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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything, the undertaking of such a peace obligation was last week to most Britons a great deal more repugnant than talented Sir Robert Vansittart's earlier scheme for making peace between Italy and Ethiopia, but the thinking machines of Britons were definitely whirring, the Honor of England was engaged, and Adolf Hitler was howling his head...
Wildly though the Munich throng of 300,000 Germans cheered Adolf Hitler, and plain though it had become that Germany was back on the "Me und Gott" standard of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin still remained irresolute. Britain's Ambassador to Germany, Sir Eric Phipps, "almost begged" Realmleader Hitler to send a delegation to London unconditionally. Instead the Destiny-guided Realmleader came back with another slap. As his price for sending a delegation to London he asked Britain to get from all nations concerned promises that they will make Adolf Hitler's terms the basis...
Last week M. Vandervelde maintained constant contact with Sir Walter Citrine, the recently knighted British Labor leader who heads the International Federation of Trade Unions. Except in Germany, Russia and Italy - countries in which trade unionism has been subordinated to the State - nearly all trade unionists are interlocked with the International Federation which is emphatically for Peace...
Finally last week M. Vandervelde and Sir Walter decided that Europe's present crisis is so grave (see p. 25) that the Second International and the International Federation of Trade Unions must again meet in joint congress for the first time since their joint effort to avert the World War failed. Rushing out invitations for such a congress on March 18, they prepared for a supreme Socialist-Labor effort to maintain Peace...
...witness of his crime was Ratanji's instant reaction. A little later Dr. Ruxton got out his scalpels, his knives, his surgical saws. He cut off Mrs. Ruxton's nose, ears, fingertips and toetips - extremities which to an expert criminal pathologist such as Britain's famed Sir Bernard Spilsbury would reveal traces of asphyxia and indicate that death had come by strangulation. As to Mary Jane Rogerson, Dr. Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse the entire face, stripping...