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...Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
Most interested spectator of the Italian leave-taking was a Britisher, Francis Hemming, secretary of London's Non-intervention Committee. No secret is it that by this "token" withdrawal both Dictator Benito Mussolini and Generalissimo Franco hope to persuade Britain and France to grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain. To New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, however, Mr. Hemming said that Italian aviators, artillerymen and technicians as well as infantrymen ought to be withdrawn...
Harvard, by the same token, should also celebrate, but with reservations, because by rights Harvard should disapprove of Christopher Columbus...
...been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...picture was taken, and apparently cautious King George did not want any possible inference to be drawn from what might be so cut and printed as to seem to be a picture of His Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue...