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...London the newsweekly Cavalcade, which has fattened its circulation by specializing in Windsor news ever since the early days of the abdication crisis (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et ante), announced results of a "nationwide" straw vote in which Cavalcade got subjects of King George VI to ballot on: 1) "Which foreign nation do you like best?" and 2) "Should the Duke and Duchess of Windsor be invited to return to England to live?" Result: 37% preferred the U. S., 28% France and 15% Germany; 61% were for inviting the Windsors back to England. This survey was made last July (Edward...
Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has actually resigned as Minister of Economics. Last week Dr. Schacht went to a cocktail party staged in farewell to U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins who is being transferred from Berlin to London...
Meatier reading than for several years is the Soviet Union's censored press today. Reason: more than 2,000,000 brand new elective jobs have been created by Russia's new Constitution (TIME, June 15, 1936 et seq.), and numberless Soviet problems, some acute, are cropping up in print as efforts are made to have these 2,000,000 jobs filled by nation-wide voting on December...
...thousands of Soviet officials have been asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
Uprose in Moscow to settle this point famed Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet prosecutor in countless "Propaganda Trials" (TIME, April 24, 1933 et seq.). Technically it is not Vishinsky, State Public Prosecutor, who interprets the Constitution or the laws, but years of Soviet press, radio and cinema propaganda have made his ominous features spell THE LAW to millions of Russians. "It is perfectly true," declared Vishinsky, that the religious communes are "legally registered societies" within the meaning of Article 56. Nevertheless and without explaining how he arrived at his conclusion, Prosecutor Vishinsky concluded by simply postulating that "only those registered societies...