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...Jewish colleagues like Major James de Rothschild, M. P. to packjam the galleries of the House of Lords last week as it began debate on the Government bill to partition Palestine into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Mandate over the Holy Places (TiME, July 19 et ante...
Palestine, slipped back into the House of Commons last week to shotgun it as effectively as he had the Government bill on British armament profiteering, which had to be entirely scrapped and redrafted (TIME, June 28 et ante). In his hunting Mr. Churchill was aided last week by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former Colonial Secretary Lieut. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. Deftly they put His Majesty's Government on the spot by crying that it was "un-British" to present a bill the effect of which would be for the House of Commons...
...clue or information which would "definitely clear up" the mid-Pacific disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred J. Noonan (TIME. July 12 et seq.), her husband George Palmer Putnam posted a reward with the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau. Amount...
...coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung to set themselves up as "autonomous" and independent of the rest of China (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935 et seq.). At about this time a Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a toothy and unappetizing Chinese with potent Japanese in-laws, was set up by Japanese soldiers as the satrap of a tiny strategic area adjoining Peiping and Tientsin which he still holds. General Doihara failed miserably so far as Suiyuan, Shansi...
...Candid General Hayashi has even said that he could not himself understand parts of speech written for him when he was Premier. (TIME, Feb. 8 et...