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TIME erred. Seven months after the surrender in Firth of Forth came the scuttling at Scapa Flow, where the High Seas Fleet was interned...
...This sort of speculative booking had by last week pretty well "filled" the Queen Mary, Paris and Bremen-all of which sail from Manhattan at just the right time for last-minute Coronation fans in a hurry-but the Cunard White Star Line is taking practically its whole fleet out of Manhattan at that time and unquestionably good accommodation is still plentiful. In this or any other year, actual decision to go abroad should of course be followed by "Booking Early" for best, cheapest cabins...
...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 it was clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part...
...Portuguese delegate who declared that his country, too, refused to contribute to the International fleet, thus leaving Britain, France, Germany and Italy to do the job. These four powers resolved to take over the whole blockade from midnight of March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar...
...most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them direct, receiving their messages through a lieutenant...