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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the U. S. Fascists disbanded, Count di Revel announced that he would resign his trusteeship of the Italian Historical Society. Harold Lord Varney, manager of the Historical Society, admitted last week that he had hired, would continue to hire professional pro-Fascist speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Triumph of Heflin | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Young Fascists, opening their New Year's copies of Tricolore, the Young Fascists' weekly magazine, were treated to a special contribution from the most prominent of all Young Fascists last week, the first instalment of a full length blood-and-thunder novel entitled La Camorra ("The Black Hand") by Vittorio Mussolini, II Duce's plump and swarthy 14-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Black Hand | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Anglo-Saxon ever really understands what a Spaniard means by his honor. It has little or nothing to do with honesty- a fact which often causes painful misunderstanding. Last week the millions of Spanish-blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Blinding Flash | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...clauses in the old Imperial Austro-Hungarian Military Code the above was naturally the most detested-by civilians. Last week Hungary's fiery new War Minister, Julius Gömbos, appeared before Parliament and announced his intention of reviving it verbatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Gombos v. Church | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

From the cozy "Home Information Center" at Mount Holyoke, Mass., Miss Irene Roelofs went straight to the American College for Girls at Arnautkeuy, suburb of Constantinople. "One of our tasks," said she brightly last week, "is to rectify and balance the Turkish meal, which usually contains an excess of carbohydrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Sinister Applesauce | 1/6/1930 | See Source »