The Leipzig Crisis and the Spanish War Echoes
Historian D James T Shotwell notes major historical questions solved by scholars as Europe endures dueling moves by Nazi Germany and Italy over Spain. Germany and Italy dispatch ships to support Franco while Britain and France maneuver, amid renewed calls for arms shows and questions about neutral volunteers.
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France
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Chautemps Returns as France's Premier After Short Shuffle
Camille Chautemps, nicknamed France’s Jimmy Walker, resumes premier’s office promising to remain faithful to the People’s Front. He halted sit-down strikes and kept the country on a 40 hour week while seeking unusual financial powers. the lower house approved but the senate balked at granting such powers.
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Blum
France
Camille Chautemps
Jimmy Walker
Natty Monsieur Chautemps
Peoples’ Front
Polish unrest and antisemitic actions headline week
Rioters attacked a Jewish prayer house injuring 23 as a Jewish man killed a Christian. The national democratic party sought to bar Jewish shopkeepers from using American aid. A Polish youth group formed to promote Jewish emigration to resolve race issues.
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Poland
Germany
National Democratic Party
Plish
Protestants clash with Nazis and tax dodges in bold headlines
The article notes Nazi efforts to control Protestant churches met with resistance from pastors including Rev. Martin Niemoeller who estimates over 500 pastors arrested. It also mentions tax avoidance probes touching Roosevelt and several named figures, with wider Soviet political purges reported in cables.
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der Fuehrer
Martin Niemoeller
Oil field sit-down strikes turn deadly in Trinidad riots
West Indies riot deaths total 14 with many injured as Port of Spain braces for a British warship. Across the Atlantic, boxing milestones for Jack Johnson and Joe Louis mark Negro champions in Reno and Chicago. Amelia Earhart contemplates rest in the Dutch East Indies while world leaders act on rail expropriation in Mexico and court-packing debates continue in Washington.
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Nev
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James J. Jeffries
Chicago
Joseph Louis Barrow
James J. Braddock
Joe Louis
Amelia Earhart
Dutch East Indies
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Netherlands
Juliana
Advances At Science Meeting In Denver Report
The American Association for the Advancement of Science heard about diverse findings in Denver. Topics include viruses that can be made harmless, a transparent test organism Daphnia, counters to shipboard radio static, and forecasts of weather related electrical disturbances. Also noted is Frederick Snite Jr. voyage in an iron lung from Shanghai to Chicago and the hope for a cure by 1944.
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Denver
Frederick Snite, Jr
S. S
Coolidge
Shanghai
Chicago
Snite
Peiping
Saite
Russians Fly From Moscow to New York Dream Flight
Three Russians landed near Portland Oregon after a cross Atlantic like trip described as mysterious by observers. Pilot Valeri Chekaloff co pilot Georgi Baibakoff and navigator Alexander Beliakoff traveled 5300 miles from Moscow via the North Pole. They visited a general’s house in California before planning a Moscow to New York flight. A separate note recalls John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie marriage troubles and Bruno Hauptmann’s execution delay.
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Valeri Chekaloff
Georgi Baibakoff
Alexander Beliakoff
Moscow
North Pole
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R.o.tc
Katheryn Marshall
San Francisco
New York
James Mattern
Oakland
John Barrymore
Elaine Barrie
Yuma
John
Patriotic Givers Quietly Donate Amid Crisis Rumors
The steel strike kept President Roosevelt tied to the phone as agencies probed inquiries. Six pickets accused of interfering with mails were ordered arrested. Patriotically, Stanley Baldwin anonymously gave a fifth of his fortune to Britain and another wealthy donor contributed 1,250,000 dollars as a thanks offering for the abdication crisis handling.
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Stanley Baldwin
Empire
Baldwin
Weather storms claim eight in southeast Michigan and six in Ohio
Wind and rain across southeast Michigan caused eight deaths as storms reached cyclonic speeds in Ohio, with six additional deaths reported. Japan said two Soviet gunboats on the Amur River fired on Manchukuoan troops.
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Michigan
Ohio
Japan
Labor strife escalates as CIO and Little Steel clash across towns
In a heated debate over workers rights, Bethlehem and Youngstown see strikes and mass protests as governors deploy troops. Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube announce reopenings, while CIO calls for a nation wide strike. Taft condemns forced settlements. leaders vow continued pressure amid court rulings on sit downers and bargaining agents.
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T Johnstown
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Johnstown
Charles P. Taft
Tom Girdler
John L. Lewis
Nazi-Catholic Pact Strained as Parochial Schools Replaced
A July 1933 pact between the Reich and Vatican allowed Nazis to teach civics while Catholics ran religion. Violations followed as Bavarian parochial schools became secular and 670 clerical teachers were replaced. Nazis claimed parental consent. Goebbels warned church strife while asserting German governance.
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Hitler
Reich
Vatican
Goebbels
Germany
Warnings on Democracy from Hughes and Angell
Chief Justice Hughes warns that unchecked temporary majorities threaten democratic institutions while retiring Yale president Angell cautions tyranny exists whether by dictator or powerful economic interests. Both voices stress guardrails on power and governance.
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Charles Evans Hughes
James Rowland Angell
Yale
Mary Heaton Vorse Shot in Youngstown Picket Line
Mary Heaton Vorse the author of Men and Steel and Strike A Novel walked with CIO organizer Scotty O Hara on a quiet Youngstown Ohio street when a car of twenty deputies passed a small group of pickets. A bullet grazed Vorse s brow during the confrontation.
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Mary Heaton Vorse
Gastonia
Youngstown
Ohio
Scotty O’hara
CIO
Scotty
National Education Association opens in Detroit Sunday
Convention opening in Detroit previews sessions and speakers. Next week highlights include International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin and Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington with leaders and events across several cities. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and Ethel du Pont set to marry while Irish Free State votes and Milwaukee hosts Youth Congress activities. Chemical exposition planned at Frankfurt am Main.
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Detroit
International Chamber of Commerce
Berlin
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Milwaukee
Frankfurt-am- Main
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