Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Loyalist Government arranged with France to use the sizable gold holdings it still has in Paris to pay for part of the refugees' expenses in France...
...with self-congratulation and party hope, and plenty of Republican renascents held forth. They were toastmastered by Illinois' heroic young C. Wayland ("Curley") Brooks, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York's slim black fox, District Attorney Tom Dewey, currently the G.O.P.'s leading candidate for Presidential nomination...
...Italy was anything but happy over this British intervention in the war was evident from Italian newspapers, which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief...
Last October Japan took advantage of the demoralization after Munich to step quietly south and seize Canton, at the back door of British Hong Kong. Stepping just as quietly, last week she took advantage of the confusion of the Spanish war's climax, went still farther south and occupied the island of Hainan, at the front door of French Indo-China...
Twenty years after the World War Belgium is still torn with Wartime hatreds. The Walloons and many loyal Flemings have never forgiven those Flemish politicians who played ball with the German invaders in the hope that Germany would sever Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before...