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...British Cabinet had just gone over his head in deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs...
...happens that Belgium has a howling would-be-Hitler in the sleek person of Rexist Leader Léon Degrelle, who has been raking every kind of muck for months against Economist van Zeeland and finally made some of it stick (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). But Belgians did not think this week that their King was taking a risk in stepping out of his country and away from his Government at such a crucial time. They felt that the Government was not so much being left behind as it was going abroad in the person of the King. Reason...
...Under his expert management as Premier the devaluation of the belga-made inevitable by the devaluation of the currencies of the Great Powers -was carried through with skill and success in sharp contrast to the awful bungling at Paris of the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5, 1936, et...
...Gaumont-British). To millions for whom the cinema is history's picture book, great figures like Alexander Hamilton, Disraeli, Voltaire, Rothschild. Richelieu et al. share one marked characteristic-an extraordinary resemblance to Actor George Arliss. Once even God looked something like him (The Man Who Played God). But whatever else he is supposed to represent, Actor Arliss is always his own suave self. He was never more so than in Dr. Syn. In the dual roles of an 18th century pirate and the kindly vicar of Dymchurch-under-the-wall, 69-year-old Actor Arliss takes a well-deserved...
...born on a farm in Nebraska), got the idea that not only experimental plants but commercial crops might be grown in water. So successful were his experiments that last summer the National Resources Committee listed "tray agriculture"-along with air conditioning, synthetic rubber, television, mechanical cotton pickers et al.- as one of the things that must be watched in the future development of the national economy...