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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landed, Congressman Warren G. Magnuson ran across the field waving a copy of TIME, Aug. 22, on whose cover appeared a photograph of Johnson. "It's all about you!" shouted Magnuson. Reluctantly, Secretary Johnson took the copy, glanced at the cover and frowned. "Is it favorable?" "Very favorable, sir," replied the Congressman. While reporters & cameramen watched, Secretary Johnson, still frowning, riffled the pages, gradually broke into a broad grin (see cut) as he read TIME'S story on the War Department...
Famed "Lady C.", whose husband, Sir Austen Chamberlain, was one of the best friends the League of Nations ever had, visited Rome last winter. There she hobnobbed with League-bolting Il Duce and was credited by diplomats with having done much to smooth the way for the Anglo-Italian Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month...
...Sir Samuel Hoare sat in the peanut gallery draped in blue satin, as though forgetfully he had worn his spouse's negligee to the Abbey...
...rnberg, the Sudeten Germans' "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein suddenly arrived to confer with the Big Führer, went to bed with a very bad cold. Envoys of the Great Powers were received at tea by strict Teetotaler Hitler, and British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson was tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything important. Tantalized Sir Nevile remained for days in Nürnberg, telling every prominent Nazi except Hitler what His Majesty's Government "might" do if actual war broke out. But French Ambassador Andr...
...onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis...