The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-12-30
FOREIGN

years imprisonment LOT KIDNAPPING OUlneSG
dictator Chang Kai-shek and then par
doned.
Jan. 7-Crown Princess Juliana of the
Netherlands married to Prince Bernhard
zu Lippe- Chesterfield.
Jan. 15-George Bonnet made French am
bassador to United States.
JAN, 17-Convicts at Guelph. Ontario
Jan. 23-Premier Hirota of Japan and
his cabinet resigned after being attacked
Karl Radek and l6 others on trial at Mos
cow confessed plot to overthrow the Stain
regime.
rights of Hamburg and Lubbock.
Jan. 30-Thirteen Russian conspirators
condemned to death: four, including Karl
Radek, given prison terms.
Gen. Senjuro Hayashi undertook task OF
forming Japanese mini y.
Feb 2-Hayashi cabinet accepted by ern-
Feb. spanish Fascists captured Malaga.
Feb. Sail political prisoners in Mexico
granted amnesty.
tria declared in favor of restoration OF
Hapsburg dynasty.
Spanish rebel warship shelled Valencia.
temporary loyaliSt capital.
March 8-Spanish liner Mar Cantrabrico
with American cargo of munitions for 10y.
alists shelled and taken by rebel vessel.
March 16-New state, Mongukuo, spon-
Sored by Japan. set up in north China.
April New constitution for India went
into effect; Burma became state within
British empire; Alden became crown colony.
April 11-Anti-F ascistS won crucial cleo.
April 2O-British coal miners voted to
Gen. Francisco Franco consolidated Span.
ish insurgent factions to form a one.party,
April 22-Poland barred all Jews from,
politics.
May president De Valera proposed
new constitution for Irish Free State.
London transportation tied up by strike
May liking George vi and Queen Eliza.
beth of Great Britain crowned.
May. 14--British imperial conference
opened in London.
May 15-caballero's loyalist Spanish cabi.
May 17-New Spanish government formed
by DR.. Juan Negrin.
May 24-Paris worlds fair opened.
May 28-Baldwin quit as British prime
Chamberlain.
May 31-Hayashi's Japanese cabinet re-
signed.
June 2-Prince Fumimaro Konoe made
premier of Japan.
June 3-Duke of Windsor and Wallis War.
field married at Monts, France.
June 16-President of White Russia com.
mitted suicide as hundreds were seized.
June 19-Bilbao fell to Spanish rebels.
June 20-Premier Blum and cabinet re.
signed as French senate refuses to make
him money dictator.
June 21-Camille Chautemps named pre-.
mier of France to succeed Blum.
Premier Of Georgian soviet republic re.
moved by Moscow.
June 23-President of Mexico announced
that government would take over national
railway lines.
June 28-France suspended payment of
gold and foreign exchange; bourse closed
until further notice.
Russian firing squads executed 81 more
wreckers in Soviet Far East.
June 29-French chamber gave cabinet
dictatorship over finances.
July German police seized Rev. Mar
tin Niemoeller. leader of the Protestants.
majority, but new constitution won in
Irish Free State elections.
July 3-Count Covadonga. former crown
prince Of Spain, and Marta Rocafort mar
ried in Havana.
July 12-Japan prepared nation to 60 on
war footing.
July 13-French Reds and rightists rioted
in Paris on eve of Bastile day.
July 17-Pope Plus angered Nazis by pay.
ing tribute to Cardinal Mundelein Of Chi.
cago.
July 1s-British parliament passed divorce
reform act.
July 2l-Eamon de Valera reelected presi.
dent of Irish Free State.
July 26-Republic of Liberia celebrated
its Goth anniversary.
July 28-Farouk I invested as king of
GSypL"
Aug. American war memorial at Mont.
faucon, France, dedicated.
Aug. 11-Kurd uprising in Syria sup.
pressed by French troops.
Russia reported execution of " railroad
WreckerS.
Aug. 25-Spanish rebels captured San
Aug. 31-French railroads nationalized by
decree.
Sept s-Paraguay government suppressed
revolt.
Sept. 17-Dr. Hjalmar Schacht retired as
German finance minister.
Oct. 2-Spanish rebels took Covadonga.
Oct. 19-New high taxes decreed in Italy.
Oct. 23-Provisional President Paez of
Ecuador resigned and was succeeded by
Gen. Alberto Enriquez.
Oct. 25-Van iceland resigned as premier
of Belgium.
Oct. 26-British parliament opened by
King George vi.
Oct. 28-Spanish loyalists moved capital
from Valencia to Barcelona.
Nov. 9-Spanish rebels announced block
ade of entire loyalist coast.
Nov. 10-President Vargas made himself
dictator of Brazil.
Nov. 16-Grand Duke George of Hesse
and ten others killed in Belgian plane cash.
Nov. 18-Dictator Vargas abolished fed
eral courts of Brazil.
Nov. 22-Duke of Windsor won libel suit
against author and publisher of book about
his abdcation.
Due de Guise issued manifesto starting
Dec. 3-Dictator Vargas of Brazil out
laWed all political parties.
Dec. 12-SoViet Russia held first free"
election under new constitution.
Dec. 13-Pope Plus created five new car.
dinals.