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After this bit of White pageantry, Spain's civil chaos remained in status quo, except that White Franco established his so-called Government as a Triumvirate, the two lesser prongs of this political trident being White North General Emilio Mola and White South General Queipo de Llano. "I promise cordial relations with every nation except Soviet Russia," cried White Franco, "and bread and heat for every Spanish home this winter...
Between the French Jew and the German "Aryan" antithesis was complete: M. Blum last week was for democracy and a generally concluded European peace to maintain the status quo under a strengthened League of Nations; Herr Hitler was for authoritarian States willing to make no more than a regional peace in Western Europe, scorned the League of Nations, and was keen for altering the status quo to give Germany at least some colonies and perhaps some rich chunks of Russian territory...
...paid in a handful of millions, industry, particularly the steel industry, is saving countless millions by not having to scrap an enormous amount of equipment. ... I have no illusions as to why my patents were bought: not to change the industrial world, but to keep it at a status quo...
...mind. Urgently he needed Italy's help against the threat of Nazi domination in Europe. Before leaving for Geneva he had given the Sarraut Cabinet France's rebuttal to Adolf Hitler's plan for European peace (TIME, April 13). Insisting on 25 years of status quo, a definite promise from Germany not to fortify the Rhineland and an international police force to keep the peace, the Flandin Plan was taken no more seriously in Geneva than it was elsewhere in Europe...
...sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...