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...grows earnest writing his British admiration of the men now assembled in Spain under General Emilio Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this day. He fought in the Great War. In 1919 he went to Siberia...
...Jailed by Nazis in Germany sits the Big Red after which this battalion is named, Comrade Ernst Thalmann, once a Presidential candidate in Germany (TIME March 21, 1932 et seq.). *Poet Brooke died on the island of Scyros in 1915 , bloodpoisoning contracted during the Dardanelles campaign...
...under the tutelage of Japan are Manchukuo, and the more recent "Mongokuo" in outer Chahar Province (TIME, March 29). Eastern Hopei Province, almost adjoining Peiping, is equally but less formally under Japanese control, has as its executive a toothy Chinese puppet named Yin Ju-keng (TIME, May 11 et ante). Puppet Yin avoids interviewers, has a hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found...
...several days observers had been wondering audibly whether the "crisis," to avoid which the President wanted a revamped Supreme Court (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), was the onset of violent inflation. Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, had issued a warning that rising prices must be checked by higher taxes and budget balancing. Although the forces of inflation had been unostentatiously at work for four years, not since 1933 had the U. S. public enjoyed such a good inflation scare. New Deal Congressmen who were already worried over the problem of passing the President's Supreme Court...
...were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...