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...found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder on his hands. Nevertheless, General Denhardt claimed that Mrs. Taylor had committed suicide (TIME, Nov. 23 et...
...Chamberlain rather than of Mr. Eden. It amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more in view of the forces arrayed, the big fact then...
Many times Leftists have halted Rightist offensives, counterattacked with vigor, but last week's capture of Belchite, in spite of the fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This...
...Kalgan, South Chahar's "complete independence" from China was declared by "100 influential persons," headed by bland, pigtailed, 36-year-old Prince Te, a pro-Japanese Mongolian, long head of the "Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians" movement (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933, et seq.). It was Prince Te with his Mongolian levies who helped the Japanese to take Kalgan. The highest position in Japan's latest puppet state was to be his reward...
Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...