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Among distinguished founders of the Spanish Republic (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) was Dr. Gregorio Marañon y Posadillo, famed biologist who was jailed under the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, was close in the running to be elected the Republic's first President. Said he last week: "The tyranny of General Primo de Rivera was just and tolerant compared to the oppressions of the present Madrid-Valencia regime. Every day they are killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception...
...although Mr. Eden has only just finished enjoying the long English Christmas and New Year holidays. In London foreign policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing the fate of Valencia. Headlined the Times: POWERS WILL DROP NEUTRALITY POLICY TO LET FRANCO...
Constitutional Crisis. Today Indians, royal and otherwise, are just beginning under a new Constitution (TIME, Jan. 11 et ante} to edge up to the head of India's table for the first time since the Empire was set up. Among ways of wrecking this Constitution would be for the ruling Indian potentates to refuse to sign the Act of Accession intended to bring their States into the new All-India Federation. Last year the Maharaja of Patiala, longtime chairman of the Chamber of Princes, re-signed rather than continue his role of being more or less Britain...
Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...
Broadcasting over the coast-to-coast long-wave network of the Columbia Broadcasting System and over a shortwave station to France, 34 picked membes of the Glee Club will present a half-hour program sponsored by the Ministre de Poste, Telephone, et Telegraphic of France on Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to 4 o'clock...