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...least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish allies. Today Franco likes to keep Italians out of the headlines as much as possible and Mussolini is willing...
...Royal Highness christened at Devonport the cruiser Gloucester. The King & Queen came vigorously through a three-day tour of Yorkshire, not making the constitutional mistake Edward VIII made when he toured Welsh slums as King, provocatively exclaimed: "Something must be done for Wales!' (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). Inspecting last week a municipal housing development at Shiregreen, Their Majesties conversed democratically with a haggard housewife who told of tribulations since her husband lost his job five years ago. Queen Elizabeth cried: "It's wonderful how you manage on so little...
...ruled by Mohammedans, followed day by day last week the violent efforts of Palestine's Christian rulers to break Arab resistance to their scheme of carving up the Holy Land into three parts: a Jewish state and an Arab state divided by a British corridor (TIME, July 12 et...
...recently drowned Director of the Bank for International Settlements, M. Pierre Quesnay. Attacks of the Belgian Fascists or Rexists upon M. van Zeeland for continuing to receive emoluments from the National Bank of Belgium after he became Premier resulted in a parliamentary vote clearing van Zeeland (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante). But the blatant Rexist press has never ceased repeating its charges, and last week van Zeeland and his Cabinet colleagues decided that His Majesty must be given opportunity to reorganize the Cabinet...
...Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between the high brow and the horny hand. To this rebel activity Caroline Gordon has contributed a five-generation family chronicle (Penhally), a novel glorifying the unindustrialized purity of a sportsman (Aleck Maury: Sportsman), a recent Civil War novel (None Shall...