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...Britain's Attorney-General, Sir Donald Somervell. Early last week the Attorney-General informed Sandys that unless he revealed the source of his information, the Official Secrets Act would be applied, making him liable to a two-year prison sentence. Sandys refused. The Army Council then created a three-man board of inquiry, headed by General Sir Edmund Ironside, governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, which promptly summoned the M. P. to appear for trial...
...three-man committees would be appointed to count foreign fighters on both sides of the Spanish front. During this period France and Portugal would close their borders to both sides...
...Pushed toward Congressional action the first of three proposed emergency laws to help the railroads. Reported favorably by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, this bill would permit RFC to make work-loans to any railroad, with reasonable expectations the only collateral required and without the present necessity for the ICC to certify that the road is not facing reorganization. A bill to create a three-man bankruptcy court for railroads is still being drafted; another permitting land-grant railroads to charge full rates for all Government traffic except Army and. Navy supplies was reported favorably by the Senate Interstate Commerce...
...Splawn report, result of Franklin Roosevelt's two months ago appointing a three-man committee of ICCommissioners, Splawn, Eastman and Mahaffie, to concoct a remedy for the railroad crisis, specifically said that the question of wages should be left to the railroads. Its other recommendations dealt with ways of lending money to the roads, increasing revenues, speeding reorganizations. Last week, after consideration by RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, Senator Burton Wheeler and representatives of railroad management and labor, these recommendations were out of the "conference stage," on the way to becoming legislative proposals...
Long-range Proposals: 1) Creation of a three-man Federal Transportation Authority to plan and promote operating economies and speed consolidations, unification of terminal facilities, car and revenue pooling, etc.; 2) methods of correcting railroad financing abuses to be left to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is now investigating them; 3) consideration of the desirability of placing all forms of transport under "equal and impartial regulation of a single agency of Government...