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...Portugal are in for much diplomatic unpleasantness from now on, but the Prime Minister also spoke in such a way as to hint that Britain and France will try to coax the colonial issue into much the same state of interminable negotiation as Nonintervention in Spain (TIME, Nov. 15 et ante). Off the record, nearly every British or Continental statesman will today admit that so-called Non-intervention has been a sorry process of seeing that Spain's civil war is dragged out as long as possible, thus avoiding a clean cut Rightist or Leftist victory. On the record...
Joseph Stalin went personally to Leningrad, supervised the grilling of Kirov's assassin, who was soon dead without a public trial, and ever since then the Dictator has been almost daily grilling and shooting prominent Russians, especially Communists (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante...
...conspiracy was minutely prepared. During the searches discovery was made of material for forging identity papers, instructions for the transportation of arms, information on the strength of the Paris police force, as well as that of the adjoining departments of Seine-et-Oise and Seine-et-Marne with the names of their commanding officers, also card-indexed information concerning a large number of military officers and the material of certain regiments...
Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as to whether he has been influenced by national Finnish idioms. His ancestry contains both Finnish and Swedish strains. Clergymen, doctors, merchants and small landowners, including a few intelligent musical amateurs, were his progenitors. He springs from the great ranks of the bourgeois...
This week for the fourth successive year the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh announced that the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition was a seascape by 76-year-old Frederick Judd Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934, et seq.). Mr. Waugh's Meridian got 800 votes out of a total of 5,000 cast by visitors who had no less than 407 paintings to choose from...