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December 13, 1935

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Headlines from December 13, 1935

Canada Shocked by Peace Move;; Government Ready to Express Strong Disapproval of Franco-British Plan if Opinion Is Sought by London -- Terms Deplored in South Africa Also as Reward for Aggression.

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 12. -- The reaction in Canadian Government circles to the Franco-British plan for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict has been highly unfavorable. One influential member of the Mackenzie King Ministry privately admitted he considered it "a shameless betrayal of the League."

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Notable Births

Türkan Saylan

1935Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and academic (died 2009)[†]

Türkan Saylan was a Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist. She was famous for fighting leprosy, and for founding a charitable foundation called "Association for the Support of Contemporary Living".

Notable Deaths

Victor Grignard

1935Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)[†]

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. He also wrote some of his experiments in his laboratory notebooks.