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Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Have you any last wish?" the executioners asked Brigadier General (retired) Anastase Papoulas and General Miltiades Kimissis, sentenced to be shot for having joined in the lost rebellion of Greece's Grand Old Man Eleutherios Venizelos (TIME, March 11 et seq.). So obvious was it to everybody that the two generals' last wish was death to the victorious enemies of Venizelos, that the two did not bother to say anything. Thereupon the firing squad blew them down dead...
Long-suffering Andrew Cairns, resident secretary in London of the International Wheat Advisory Commission created by the World Wheat Conference of 21 agrarian nations including the U. S. (TIME, July 3 et. seq.), sent out invitations last week for a super-gloomy meeting...
Signor Mussolini, impatient and contemptuous of the "exploratory voyages" of Sir John and Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden (TIME, April 1 et seq.), sought to get everyone down to brass tacks. Observed Italian newsorgans which are under his thumb: "What have these explorations done except to leave Italy under the necessity of maintaining 600,000 men in arms? . . . When is procrastination to give place to action...
...Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Sûreté Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail...