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...fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania's odorous, backward little capital, to seek the King's approval before he settled on the Countess Apponyi...
...months, the balloon, billowing up in the Teruel-to-the-Mediterranean front, has been in Leftist hands. Last week, unable to stand up under the downpour of shells, bald-domed General Jose Miaja, commander-in-chief on the Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists...
...Duchess' disclosure had an air of authenticity because she is an M. P. who gets around, keeps her ears and eyes open. Since 1923 she has been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes...
Triumphantly "My Friend Otha" concluded his campaign: "The issue is clear. It is simply a question of whether Iowa wants to go forward with Roosevelt or backward with his enemies...
...miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even as far as to allow Henlein's "illegal" white-shirted Storm Troopers to assume police duties...