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...hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado...
...reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...
...some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago...
...speech the day before by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Walsh in which he flayed the Administration for "niggardliness" in its relief plans. Declared Senator Walsh: "There are worse misfortunes tHan heavy taxes. One is the failure of the Government to remove the spectre of starvation and misery and idleness and unrest." Another provocation was the Senate's preference for a $60,000,000 drought relief program over the administration...
...Victor Guillemin, Jr. of the Physics department will address the Harvard Socialist Club on Tuesday, December 11, in Straus Hall Common Room at 8 o'clock on "Student Unrest in Europe". Dr. Guillemin has spent many years among the students in the various European universities and has been able to observe closely the background and workings of student radicalism...