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Jagged cakes of ice jostled each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe by the King! Those statesmen who have served Egypt best have all been discharged like servants. I will continue to struggle for this unhappy land of Egypt until the will of Allah be done...
...offer their personal apologies for the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay (TIME, Dec. 20). This latest outburst of runaway Japanese militarism gave the Japanese public a sudden revealing picture of the irresponsibility of Japanese officers in China, and threatened to do the one thing that intelligent Japanese statesmen fear-drive the U. S. to take forceful action...
Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...
...stirring in Russia; that the Soviet Union's effective strength in warfare has been greatly reduced by these conditions; that Dictator Stalin is now maintaining himself in power only by the most terroristic methods. These points came out not as "news" but as the considered opinions of statesmen...