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...past four years Mr. Churchill has been slashing his own political throat, leading a series of vain attacks on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...discreetly praised its "frankness." Off the record, to correspondents of their own nationality, they said that Germany had been unmasked by her Minister of Justice in the act of creating a penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate to the evil...
Berlin, by hailing Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter as a hero last week (see above), forced into prominence the deep, half-hidden split between popular Nazi demagogs and Adolf Hitler's unpopular Big Business friends whose key man is Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and charged by the Realmleader with finding money for everything from poor relief to export subsidies and pocket battleships...
...first attempted to make it come true by appointing a commission in 1918. Last week in Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. South which angrily broke away in 1845 because of slavery...
...defined, was what tax evasion became when a rich man hired a $250,000 lawyer to change the word. One way to avoid taxes, and one which cost the Government a lot of money, was to form family trust funds. One U. S. family, he declared, had its fortune split up into 197 such funds...