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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the S. S. President Coolidge when it cleared the Golden Gate for Manila last week were 75 guests of the U. S. Government. They were Filipinos taking their next-to-last chance to go home at U. S. expense. Already 1,900 had taken a free ride home since the Filipino Repatriation Act was passed in the summer of 1935. Just one more Filipino repatriation party is to be given before December 31, when the Act expires...
...sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might save for him his chairmanship of the Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation (unless by petition the House membership calls bills out of it to the floor...
...Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens in this salient proudly pinched themselves off. They issued proclamations defying Prague, warned that Nazi vengeance will be taken later on every Sudeten who "as a traitor puts on the uniform of Stalin and Syrovy...
...Flattens Everything!" An ardent Leftist, Professor Haldane says that "a British Labor or Popular Front Government" might have ordered taken long ago the precautions he now recommends. He ignores the fact that Moscow has not taken them, that the French Popular Front, after studying the reports of its many-agents in Spain, adopted the same "evacuation strategy" as British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Apart from his plunge into politics and recriminations, Scientist Haldane gives many objective, personal accounts of his sensations under bombing in Spain...
...France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during the week the crucial question of whether Czechoslovakia, if attacked by Germany, could count in any case on Russian aid. Up to now Maxim Litvinoff...