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...Vive le Roi!" The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, who accompanied King George to handle negotiations for His Majesty's Government, began at once an earnest conversation with French Premier Edouard Daladier which appeared completely to engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large...
...Spain's ever-diminishing Leftist side, political mortality of statesmen and generals was also high. Hard-boiled Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, miscalled the "Spanish Lenin," first Minister of Labor under the Republic, former president of the Bricklayers' Union, was Premier for eight months, then was rudely ousted and forgotten. Former newsboy, ex-publisher Socialist Indalecio Prieto, builder of the Leftist People's Army, writer of brutally frank war communiques, for a year Minister of Defense, took his marching papers after the disastrous Aragon defeat last spring...
...Statesmen Daladier and Chamberlain are also shopping for Turkey as an ally of Democracy. London reported last week the imminent prospect of a formal military alliance between His Majesty's Government and that of Dictator Kamal Atatürk, a hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was pro-Soviet during the years when Moscow made that worth his while, has lately been pro-Nazi, is now emerging as the great Mohammedan champion of Democracy. Kamal Atatürk has now received a $30,000,000 British loan, dispatches confirmed last week, and Turkey has agreed to spend...
...European statesmen have long feared that one of Spain's warring governments, finding itself in a desperate situation, would try to avert defeat by starting a general European war. Last week the harried Spanish Leftist Government, cut off from munitions supplies through France, its ports partly blockaded by ships and air bombers, delivered to the British and French Governments a threat which, if carried out, might easily produce another European Sarajevo...
...dreams of a great unified, Arab Near Eastern State-so carefully fostered by Great Britain's warrior-statesmen in 1914-18-were wrecked in the subsequent peace treaties by European "divide-&-rule" policies. Men like Lawrence of Arabia believed, led the Arabs to believe, that with the defeat of Turkey and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire one great homogeneous Arab nation of essentially the same race, same religion, same culture, would stretch from the southern borders of the Anatolian plateau to the fantastically shaped rocks of Aden...