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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paderewski, TIME, Feb. 27, p. 47. "A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as 'touch' in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: 'Art is a question of personality...
...nothing in its place, not even a 'thank you' from General Franco. This is not in the interests of democracy or the interests of the safety of the British Empire. The Government is thinking all the time of the interests of British capital." When Attlee tired, Sir Archibald Sinclair took up the attack for the Liberal forces. Said he: "Unlike this Government, Franco will remain faithful to his own principles and own friends. . . . Don't forget that a part of the policy of Franco's supporters is the recovery of Gibraltar from Britain." The British Government...
Hours before the debate began, the British Government had assisted Franco's longtime representative in London, the Duke of Berwick & Alba, in taking over the palatial Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Britain meanwhile decided to send as her Ambassador to Franco Spain a routine diplomat, 50-year-old Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson, until last week Britain's Ambassador to Iraq and a man who has seen previous service in Madrid as counselor of the British Embassy. Franco promptly accepted...
...Germany last week continued to build more & more airplanes, Britain continued to dig deeper & deeper holes in which, to hide from them. > Lord Privy Seal Sir John Anderson, who actually is British Minister for Civilian Defense, announced in the House of Commons last week what the well-dressed British baby will wear in the next war. Sir John said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks...
...starvation in the flooded Yellow River valley. In besieged Madrid the number of persons reported dying from starvation every week has recently risen to 2,000. Faced by these grim facts, a subcommittee of the League of Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs...