The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
FOREIGN
overnment executed

Jan. 3-Chinese government executed
many drug addicts.
Jan. 4-Marshal Chang sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment for kidnapping
Chinese dictator Chang Kai-shek and
then pardoned.
Jan. Grown Princess Juliana of the
Netherlands married to Prince Bern
hard zu e.Biesterfeld.
Jan. 15--George Bonnet made French
ambassador to United States.
Jan. 17-Convicts at Guelph, Ontario.
started riot, fred prison and several
Jan. 23-Premier Hirota Of Japan and
his cabinet resigned after being at
tackled in parliament.
Karl Radek and 16 others on trial at
Moscow confessed plot to overthrow the
Stain regime.
Jan. 26-Germany abolished free city
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 ministry.
Feb. 2-Hayashi cabinet accepted by
emperor of Japan.
Feb. 7-Spanish Fascists captured
Feb. 9-An political prisoners in Mex
leo granted amnesty.
Feb. 14EChancellor Schuschnigg of
Austria declared in favor of restoration
of Hapsburg dynasty.
Spanish rebel warship shelled Val.
encia. temporary loyalist capital.
March 2-British house of commons
indorsed governments rearming policy
March 8-Spanish liner Mar Cantra-
for loyalists shelled and taken by rebel
March 1e-New state. Mongukuo.
sponsored by Japan, set up In north
China.
went into effect: Burma became state
within British empire; Alden became
crown colony.
April 1I-Anti-Fascists won crucial
election in Belgium.
April 20-British coal miners voted to
Gen. Francisco Franco consolidated
Spanish inSurgent factions to form one
party authoritarian state.
April 22-Poland barred all Jews from
May i-President De Valera proposed
new constitution for Irish Free State.
British government refused title of
royal highness" TO Mrs. Wallis War
field on her marriage to duke of Wind
Sor.
London transportation tied up by strike
of $4,000 buSmen.
May 12-King George vi and Queen
Elizabeth of Great Britain crowned.
May i5-CabalIero's loyalist Spanish
cabinet resigned.
May I7-New Spanish government
formed by DIR. Juan Negrin.
May 24-Paris worlds fair opened.
May 2S-Baldwin quit as British prime
minister and was succeeded by Neville
Chamberlain.
May 31-Hayashis Japanese cabinet
resigned.
premier of Japan. ,,,-
June 3-Duke of Windsor and Wallis
Warfield married at Monts, France.
June l9-Balbao fell to Spanish rebels:
June 20-Prenier Blum and cabinet
resigned as French senate refused to
make him money dictator.
June 21-Camille Chautemps named
premier of France to succeed Blum.
June 23-President of Mexico an
nounced that government would take
over national railway lines.
June 23-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 cab.
met dictatorship over finances.
July 2-DeValera's party failed to get
a majority, but new constitution won In
Irish Free State elections.
July l3-French Reds and rightists
July l7-Pope Plus angered Nazis by
paying tribute to Cardinal Munoelein
of Chicago.
July l9-British parliament passed di-
vorce reform act.
July 2l--Eamon de Valera reelected
president of Irish Free State.
July 26-Republic Of Liberia cele-
brated its Goth anniversary.
July 23-Farouk invested as king of
Egypt.
Montfaucon. France, dedicated.
Aug. 11-Kurd uprising in Syria sup
pressed by French troops.
Russia reported execution of " rail-
road WreckerS.
Aug. 25-Spanish rebels captured San
tander.
Aug. 3l-French railroads nationalized
by decree.
Sept. 8-Paraguay government sup
pressed revolt
Sept. 17-Dr. Hjalmar Schacht retired
as German finance minister.
Oct. 2-Spanish rebels took Cova-
donga.
oct. ls-New high taxes decreed in
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
hlIB OCOA Va
oct. 28-Spanish loyalists moved capi.
tai from Valencia to Barcelona.
Nov. 10-President Vargas made HIM
self dictator of Brazil.
Nov. l6-Grand Duke George Of Hesse
and ten others killed in Belgian plane
crash.
Nov. 18-Dictator Vargas abolished
federal courts of Brazil.
Nov 22-Duke of Windsor won libel
suit against author and publisher of book
about his abdication.
Due de Guise issued manifesto start:
ing campaign to regain throne of
France.
Dec. 3-Dictator Vargas Of Brazil out
lawed all political parties.
Dec l2-Soviet Russia held first
free" election under new constitution.
Dec. 13-Pope Plus created five new
cardinals.
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