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...Constitution, given to India mainly by Sir Samuel Hoare when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that...
...most important piece of international collaboration since the League of Nations commissioned a joint British-Italian-Dutch-Swedish Army to supervise the Saar Plebiscite (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935 et ante) was the decision in London of 27 nations at the International Committee for Non-intervention to keep out of Spain further volunteers and ammunition (TIME, March 1). Last week the committee agreed how best to do this. The coast of Spain was divided into sectors, and part of the international fleet was assigned to each. To Russia was assigned patrol of the northwest sector of the Bay of Biscay, though...
...extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged. She succeeded Mrs. Herbert Hoover as board chairman of the Girls Scouts of America. Her husband dead (in 1930, leaving her $50,000,000), she accepted Notre Dame...
...Babington Macaulay (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Minister Macaulay left Vatican City, bound for a vacation in the U. S. Whether or not the marriage would be performed, as had been predicted, in Rome by Papal Secretary of State Pacelli, who visited at "Inisfada" last autumn (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), performed it soon would be in a manner befitting the mature companionship of a good and gracious lady and a courtly diplomat...
...unemployed authors and actors who draw $23.86 per week from WPA well know from which side of public issues their paychecks come. Now under the direction of Morris Watson, American Newspaper Guild organizer whose dismissal by the Associated Press has been carried to the Supreme Court (TIME, June 29 et ante), the Living Newspaper's first production was a news-dramatization along MARCH OF TIME lines of the Italian seizure of Ethiopia. The State Department firmly put the lid on this show and the Living Newspaper next turned its attention to Triple-A Plowed Under. This treatment...