A new picture of Stalin taken quite recently, the photograph hav- .. ing almost caught the Dictator in a smiling mood. Stalin is much in the news these days, both as the result of rumours of his death, which this picture seems to give the lie to, and also with the "purge" that is apparently spread- ing itself far and wide in Moscow.
THE CHINA MALL, FERR
POLITICAL STALEMA
M. DELBOS
ON THE OUTLOOK: MENACE IN MEDITERRANEAN
Paris, To-day.
That Herr Hitler's Reichstag speech has pro- duced a stalemate is the gist of a statement under- stood to have been made by the French Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, in the foreign affairs commission of the Chamber.
The situation, said M. Delbos, remains as it was at the time of the relent speeches by Mr. Anthony Eden and M. Leon Blum.
Public conversations had ended but the talks would be con tinued through diplomatic channels.
M. Delbos is reported to have sider the Spanish problem from an- added that the initiative remain- other viewpoint than that of "poli- ed with the British Government,tical ideology," since peace in the who were mainly concerned over Mediterranean is a most vital ques- Herr Hitler's colonial aims and tion. refusal to disarm. Reuter.
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CRADLE TO GRAVEYARD?
Paris, To-day.
A strong plea to the French Gov- ernment to co-operate with Great Britain and Italy so that the Me- diterranean, which is the cradle of Western civilisation, does not be come the graveyard of that civilisa- tion," is made by the former Pre- mier, M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin.
Settlement of the war, he con- cluded, must be part of a general European appeasement.
Trans-
Ocean.
NO AIR REVIEW AT CORONATION
London, To-day. There will be no air review in M. Flandin, writing in the connexion with the Coronation but "Figaro," says that the Spanish the King will attend the Royal Air civil war, which threatens the peace Force display at Hendon on June of the Mediterranean, is a life and death affair for the powers most concerned in that ocean.
GENERAL APPEASEMENT.
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This information was given to the House of Commons by the Un- der-Air Secretary, Sir Philip Sas-
It is high time, he says, to con- soon-British Wireless.
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The new "House of the Nations" built.
Fair of 1937.
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Betty Paferson, the Bell of Baltimore in 1803, as depicted by Marion Davies in "Hearts Divid ed," which is coming to the King's to-morrow.
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