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...into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was a trough containing twelve potassium cyanide "eggs." Under the trough was a bucket of sulphuric acid. Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious. In 30 seconds he was dead. Materials for the execution had cost the State of Colorado...
...Last week His Majesty's furniture and servants sufficed without His Majesty. When Adolf Hitler, strict teetotaler and vegetarian, sat down to the official luncheon of 25 covers he alone refused wine and meat, drank water with his scrambled eggs and vegetables. After lunch Dictator and Dictator withdrew for the first of their two-man talks alone in German. Two days later the German Foreign Office experts were complaining: "The Chancellor has apparently no need of our advice. We have never had such a vacation. Everything is between them." The two days passed in a bedlam of parades...
...orally by the Japanese Official Spokesman, Eiji Amau. In Tokyo, therefore, two identical notes were delivered to the British and U. S. Embassies from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It was explained that these were Japan's only official utterances on the subject of her policy toward China. Japan withdrew nothing of importance, but there were many soothing omissions. Japan had no intention of abrogating the Nine Power Treaty, or of interfering with the "purely commercial'' interests of other powers in China. Ambassador Saito attempted to smooth matters still further by blandly insisting that the original Amau statement...
Disarmament's headstone last week was a bulky 7,000-word White Paper from the British Government which detailed solemnly and without comment Disarmament's faltering steps into its grave since that day last October when Hitlerite Germany withdrew from the Conference and announced its withdrawal from the League rather than wait until 1938 to attain arms equality with France (TIME, Oct. 23). Eight documents paralleled the following events...
...sixth time. Meanwhile a faction of young army officers was rumored busy building up Hayashi's resignation into a reason why Premier Saito's entire cabinet should resign. When Hayashi got wind of that, his temper changed. Prince Kanin spoke, against the resignation. With great relief Hayashi withdrew his resignation...