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...British Government issued a statement which still offered arbitration on the question of the four Chinese but which hinted darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York Herald Tribune editorialized that the Japanese blockade was an "act of war." The New York Daily News argued for a U. S.-British blockade of Japan...
...handsome Federal Building, with its open courts and imposing colonnade of the 48 States, provides the best all-round show at the Exposition. Dioramas dramatize National Defense. The best: the U. S. fleet in action, with battle planes and bombers swooping down from the sky. Other good exhibits: U. S. Indian arts & crafts (TIME, March 6); a Federal Theatre offering such Living Newspaper hits as .... one third of a nation . . . , such documentary films as Pare Lorentz' The River...
...come to London just to see his tailor. Their theme: military tactics of Britain, France and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bang-up climax was a demonstration of Anglo-French naval power as units of the French Atlantic squadron for the first time since 1918 joined the British Home Fleet at Rosyth...
Oath. Meanwhile, in Burgos, Generalissimo Franco moved to set up a "corporate state" on the model of Fascist Italy. A $70,000,000 subsidy was set aside to build up a merchant fleet to "display New Spain's prestige in America and the Far East." Curtailment of imports of gasoline, motor cars, machinery, motion picture films was announced. Syndical labor laws were ordered written, with labor unions being organized on the approved Fascist model. Strikes will be outlawed, the unions will be controlled by the Government. New contracts will be written for tenant farming, and the Spanish Phalanx...
...sanitation. Italian planes are good, their pilots well trained in Ethiopia and Spain, but production is handicapped at all times because of lack of raw materials. On sea, Italy has cruisers (21 in commission, twelve abuilding) that are among the fastest in the world, a big destroyer and submarine fleet, plus mosquito-boats manned by daredevils, all of which makes Italy an ugly foe to fight in the western Mediterranean. Hero of the Italian navy is Rizzo, motorboat commander who sank an Austrian dreadnought in the World War 21 years ago. June 10, the anniversary of that day will...