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...Sinaia last week the Foreign Ministers of Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (the Little Entente) met over a case of champagne for their annual get together. This year's meeting was crucial. Dictator Mussolini for months has been trying to weld Yugoslavia to his Rome-Berlin axis, to smash thei Little Entente's solidarity and isolate "pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Champions of Democracy | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore was firing salvos of blank shells. In half an hour Hilo was in "ruins," the attacker "landing" virtually unopposed. Next da when the main fleet of attackers descended on Oahu, the island of Hawaii served thei as a base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Eight Days? | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...south from around Winnipeg. By 1800 they owned the country around the foot of Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee south to Indiana. Government agents drove them from Lake Michigan, forced them to sell part of the land in small lots, simply evicted them from the rest. Eviction did not destroy thei" title, so they are still rightful owners. Declared Andrew Johnson, an educated Pottawatomie, at last week's powwow: "From 1836 to 1840 a great injustice was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAGES: Pottawatomic Pow-Wow | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement rest with the several Dominion states or with the central Dominion authority? Back in the early '903 the Australian states set up thei'r enforcement machinery. It functioned unhindered until the Dominion Arbitration Court Act was passed in 19154. Ever since there have been incessant conflicts. It is notorious that the powers of the Dominion Court under the Australian Constitution are not sufficiently broad to allow it to function efficiently. On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce Defeated | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...most crimson hue. Cross-examining Mr. Sacco, District Attorney Katzmann drew from him a long speech, in whose broken, halting English the law-abiding Massachusetts gentlemen of the jury heard a Communist's brief for Communism. Said Mr. Sacco after telling how he had come to thei Fm -:, believing it to be the "land of the free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Pardon? | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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