The CNT/FAI accepted four cabinet posts in the Spanish Republic, the first and only time that anarchists have participated in a national government.[7]
A defamation case opened in the High Court of Justice brought by Richard S. Lambert against Lt. Col. Cecil Levita. Lambert sued Levita after the Lieutenant Colonel suggested that Lambert was unfit to be associated with the British Film Institute because he believed in Gef the talking mongoose. Levita denied uttering the words attributed to him, but said they would have been fully justified if he did.[8]
Father Charles Coughlin announced that he was withdrawing from "all radio activity in the best interest of all the people" and retiring from politics.[15] This retirement proved to be short-lived as he returned to the air in January 1937.[16]
British MP John McGovern asked Chancellor of the ExchequerNeville Chamberlain if he considered it wise to proceed with the expenditure of Edward VIII's coronation "in view of the gambling that is going on at Lloyd's as to whether or not this Coronation will ever take place".[20] Chamberlain ignored the question.[21]
President Roosevelt sent birthday greetings to Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, but only addressed him as the "king of Italy" and avoided his new additional title of "emperor of Ethiopia".[23]
Winston Churchill gave a speech in Parliament attacking the Baldwin government for its slow response to the "unwelcome fact" of German rearmament, warning that Britain was entering a new period of danger. "The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close", Churchill stated. "In its place, we are entering a period of consequences."[24]
Germany announced that it would no longer observe the articles in the Treaty of Versailles that had internationalized rivers such as the Rhine, Elbe and Oder so that landlocked countries could have access to the sea.[28][29]
In British Parliament, LabourMPWilliam Adamson asked President of the Board of TradeWalter Runciman if there was "any special scrutiny of books and printed literature imported from other countries." Runciman, pretending to be unaware that this was in reference to the censorship of foreign newspapers and magazines reporting on the king's relationship with Wallis Simpson, asked Adamson to provide particulars to his office in order to get an answer. Ellen Wilkinson, also of Labour, then asked Runciman "why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute imported into this country during the last few weeks, at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn out; and what is this thing the British public are not allowed to see?" "My department has nothing to do with that", Runciman answered.[32][33]
Died:John Bowers, 50, American film actor (suicide)
362 were killed in northern Akita, Japan when a dike collapsed after heavy rains.[2]
In the Spanish Civil War, the Germans launched Operation Ursula.
German submarine U-18 sank in a collision during a training exercise with the loss of 8 out of 20 crew.[37] It would be raised eight days later and returned to service in September 1937.
Submarines attacked the Spanish Republican fleet at Cartagena. The Spanish Republic issued a statement expressing its belief that the submarines were "part of a foreign fleet, since the rebels have never possessed such instruments."[39]
This is the cover date of the first issue of the revamped Life magazine, transformed by its new ownership from a general interest publication to a news magazine with heavy emphasis on photojournalism.
Born:Robert Barnard, crime writer, critic and lecturer, in Essex, England (d. 2013); Steve Landesberg, actor and comedian, in New York City (d. 2010)
Nazi Germany attacked the Nobel Prize committee for its decision to award the Peace PrizetoCarl von Ossietzky. "Bestowing the Nobel Prize on a notorious traitor is an impudent challenge and insult to the new Germany", the statement read.[43]
Following the German and Italian recognition of Francoist Spain, the Republic seized their embassies in Madrid.[13]
Edward VIII met with Stanley Baldwin again and said he wanted a morganatic marriage that would allow him to remain King while Wallis Simpson would be designated his consort instead of Queen. This arrangement would require new legislation and though Baldwin said this would not be acceptable, he would take the matter up with the Cabinet.[30]
The Daily Mirror became the first British newspaper to put Wallis Simpson on its front page. The story, which only identified her as "a former United States society woman now living in London", was about the death threats she was receiving and the precautions detectives were taking of opening all packages she received.[47]
The Spanish Republic invoked Article XI of the Covenant of the League of Nations in which any member of the League affected by war or threat of war could request a meeting of the council.[48][49]
The British Cabinet rejected Edward's proposal for a morganatic marriage.[30]
President Roosevelt visited Rio de Janeiro. He made a speech in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in which he called on all republics of the Americas to work together so "conflict will be banished from this part of the world."[50]
Franco signed a secret treaty of mutual friendship and assistance with Italy.[51]
29 were killed and 69 wounded in the unsuccessful revolt of a regiment in the Ecuadorian Army.[52]
Japan recognized Ethiopia as Italian territory.[31]
This week's issue of The New Yorker included a profile of Time Inc. co-founder Henry Luce. The article by Wolcott Gibbs was completely written in a parody of Time magazine's idiosyncratic style and included the famous phrase, "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Luce was not amused by the parody and Time Inc. would feud with The New Yorker for years afterward.[53][self-published source][54]
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