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TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct...
Ever since civil war burst over Spain, European military experts have been saying that a crucial test was whether the White forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco would be able to take Irun on the French frontier and thus cut off the Madrid Government from receiving covert aid from the French Front Populaire...
Untrained, the Government militia made such a mess of trying to use their artillery that finally a sympathetic French reserve officer undertook to direct their fire. The French Ambassador, bold Jean Herbette, meanwhile undertook to take out of Spain a mysterious individual whom the Red guards at the Spanish frontier viewed with so much suspicion that they threatened to open fire. Cried M. Herbette from his Ambassadorial car flying the Tricolor, ''Fire if you dare, Messieurs-upon the French Ambassador!" As the Reds hesitated he dashed to safety in France...
Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier. Last week he staged this year's war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which was about as near as the stormy Dictator has ever come to a Peace gesture...
...Great markets yet to be developed lie within our own borders and across the sea. The frontier of new wants points this way to a better standard of living in this country. Even in our most prosperous days many of our people did not live well enough. How can it be said that we have overproduction when so many Americans are badly fed, badly clothed and badly housed? How can it be said we have overproduction when large groups of our fellow citizens are neglected, underpaid, or unemployed? How dare we talk about overproduction when the evil effects of these...