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Malta was taken over to squelch the pro-Italian Government its islanders had elected. Patriotic Britons highly approved of that. But the British taxpayer winced when it appeared last week that he must guarantee the debts of thoroughly insolvent Newfoundland. As Newfoundland bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based...
...scoff or suspect. Was the Department of Commerce about to hand out $7,000,000 contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response [to the poll] does not follow, we will at least learn what is retarding the development...
...which conferred honorary citizenship on him last week (as have 144 towns previously) Otto declared, "With God's help I will be in Austria on a day not far distant to lead my homeland with a strong hand, happy and sure of a great future." Chancellor Dollfuss, to squelch any possible suspicion that his new Corporative State will be topped (like Italy's) with a Crown, telephoned orders barring the letters from being made public...
...week the Japanese Foreign Office called this situation "ambiguous," "intolerable." It announced Japan had already given "the only warnings that will be given of the outbreak of large scale hostilities immediately north of Peiping." Meanwhile the retreating Japanese had made a left swing, showed up north of Peiping. To squelch Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers the new advance will "probably be on a larger scale than heretofore, requiring the special sanction of the Emperor...
Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...