The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-08
FOREIGN

Jan. 10-Miguel Gomez elected president
Jan. i7-Eleven acquitted. nine convicted
in great Stavisky fraud trial in Paris.
Jan. 2o-King George of England died.
Jan. 2lLFormer Prin T;e OF Wales pro-
Jan. 2s-Premier Laval Of France re-
Jan. 24-Albert sarraut formed new
Feb. i3-French cabinet suppressed all
royaiist organizations because Of riots.
Feb. 16-Leftists won Spanish elections.
Feb. 17-Paraguay government seized by
Feb. l9-Manuel Azana made premier
FEB. 26-Japanese militarists revolted and
assassinated several high officials; govern.
ment buildings in Toxic seized.
Feb. 29-Rebellion in Japan .quelled.
March 9--New Japanese cabinet headed
by Koki Hirota installed.
March 11-Franco made Paraguay q to-
talitarian state.
March l4EFranco government in Para.
quay recognized by United States and other
March 2o-Mexican government permitted
reopening of 5000 Catholic churches.
March % - Mussolini abolished Italian
chamber. of deputies and nationalized all
large industries.
President Vargas proclaimed martial law
in Brazil
March 29-Germany gave Hitler almost
unanimous vote in reichstag elections:
April - Austria decreed general con-
scription, violating st. German treaty.
April spanish parliament voted Presi.
dent Zamora out of office.
April 10-MeXican government expelled
former President Gales. ..- -.
April "a = Honduran government an.
nounced suppression of rebellion:
April 25-Eleazar Contreras elected presi-
oe Aprii decentralization of Communists and
Socialists won majority in French parlia'
mentary elections.
was succeeded by Crown Prince Farouk.
May 2-Wafd party won Egyptian parlia'
mentary elections.
May s1coalitiSn of leftists won control
May lo-Manuel Azana made president OF
Spain.
May 13-Prince Won Starhemberg. vice
chancellor of Austria. dropped from cabi-
May 15-Chancellor Schuschnigg of Aus.
tria decreed dissolution of all private arm
May, l7-Bolivian army officers forced
President Sorzano to resign and named Col.
David Toro to succeed him.
May 20-Miguel Mariana Gomez inaug'
May SO-Miiitary revolt started in Mica.
June 2-J. H. Thomas, resigned British
colonial secretary. found guilty of discos'
June 4-Leon Blum. Socialist. became
premier of France.
June 7-Million French workers Won
strike as employers accepted MIRA oil
June 1o~Spanish Reds and syndicalists
fought machine gun battle at Malaga.
June 15-Pope Plus created two new Ital'
ian cardinals.
June l8-French cabinet decreed dissolu-
ton of all Fascist organizations.
July 16 = Gen. Gustav Orlicz. Dresser
chief of Polands air force. killed in crash
July is~Fascists and royalists started
revolution in Spain.
July 28-Spanish government seized ali
church and school property and took con
Aug. GPremier Metaxas of Greece sci
up. dictatorship because Of Communist
Aug. ls-zinoviev. Kamenev and "a 9th
psee s S f ssS Soviet IT, kill
| Aug. .2s-Russian conspirators sentenced
| to death.
British liner Queen Mary set new trans.
Aug. 24-Sixteen Russian conspirators ex
| ecuted by firing squad.
Hitler doubled period of military train
ing in Germany.
bassador to United States. =.
Sept, 3-Great Britain put Palestine under
Sept. @Caballero. Socialist leader. be-
came premier of Spain.
Spanish rebels captured Irun.
as SEPT 1 France decided to spend $780,.
Sept. ll-British trades union congress
rejected popular front" alliance with com
Sept, 1a-spanish rebels captured sar
Sept ls-spanish lOyalists dynamited par