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...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, leader of an especially notorious Japanese military clique. Colonel Hashimoto was generally regarded as one of the heads behind the unsuccessful Tokyo putsch nearly two years ago, when Army detachments ran amok, murdered Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, seized the Metropolitan Police building (TIME, March 9, 1936 et seq.). Afterwards 15 young Japanese officers were executed but Colonel Hashimoto, having political influence, was merely cashiered. This year Japan's need of trained officers in China put him back in uniform, and it would be strictly in character for Colonel Hashimoto and his fanatical clique to think...
Czechoslovakia last week received in her hospitable arms French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos on the last leg of his 17-day jaunt to Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 13 et seq.), undertaken to strengthen French friendship with her mid-European allies. While bound for Prague, the French diplomat, ardent League of Nations supporter, received a neat kick in the pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member...
Robert John Graham Boothby is one of the British Conservative Party's ablest young men who entered the House of Commons 13 years ago. aged 24, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill (TIME, Nov. 27, 1924, et seq.). He told the House that President Roosevelt's policies "violate every economic principle," then issued a survey making his points in detail...
English newsorgans have printed little, the English public has thought less about the fact that next week, when the newly adopted Irish Free State Constitution (TIME, July 12 et ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State...
...Leon Schlesinger, Mr. Max Fleischer et al, make most of the animated cartoons produced in the U. S. Of the man who makes the rest and the best, Mr. Schlesinger recently observed: ''We're businessmen. Walt Disney's an artist. With us, the idea with shorts is to hit 'em and run. With us, Disney is more of a Rembrandt...