" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

In his 1938 essay " Why I joined the Independent Labour Party ," published in the ILP-affiliated New Leader, Orwell wrote:

Typical among them was the fiercely anti-Semitic Curt Prufer, who joined the Foreign Office in 1907, served as the German Ambassador to Brazil in 1938 – 1942, and then worked closely with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni in recruiting Balkan Muslims to kill Jews in 1943.

Lorenz joined the Nazi Party in 1938 and accepted a university chair under the Nazi regime.

Several sections of the Methodist Church joined the Reformed Church of France in 1938.

Paul K. Benedict had joined the Berkeley team in 1938, and in 1942 he published his own classification, where he overtly excluded Vietnamese ( placing it in Mon – Khmer ), Miao – Yao, and Tai – Kadai (' Kadai ', placing it in Austro-Tai ).

From 1936 through 1938 Wolfgang Paalen, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Roberto Matta joined the group.

Hatay Province remained a part of the French Mandate of Syria according to the Treaty of Lausanne, but in 1938 gained its independence as the Hatay State, which later joined Turkey after a referendum in 1939.

In 1934 Duchamp joined the French Secret Service and between 1935 and 1938 was the Chief of Security at the French Embassy in Berlin.

The total Axis population in 1938 was 258. 9 million, while the total Allied population ( excluding the Soviet Union and the United States, who later joined the Allies ) was 689. 7 million.

Inspired by Vardaro ’ s style of tango, and still only 17 years old, Piazzolla moved to Buenos Aires in 1938 where, the following year, he realized a dream when he joined the orchestra of the bandoneónist Anibal Troilo, which would become one of the greatest tango orchestras of that time.

He joined the Dutch Diplomatic Service in 1938 and after a two year assignment at the Private Office of the Foreign Minister he was appointed as attaché in Bern ( Switzerland ) in 1940 and in late 1941 he moved to Lisbon ( Portugal ).

Slaughter was born in Roxboro, North Carolina and joined the Cardinals in 1938 before being traded to the New York Yankees in 1954.

Born in Jiaocheng, Shanxi province, Hua joined the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in 1938 as a part of counter-Japanese resistance, after having joined the Long March in 1936.

In February 1938, Abbott and Costello joined the cast of The Kate Smith Hour radio program, and the sketch was first performed for a national radio audience that March.

Zhao joined the Communist Youth League in 1932, and became a full member of the Party in 1938.

In 1938 Owens-Illinois Glass Company and Corning Glass Works joined to form the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation.

After the Yan ' an conference in 1938, he joined the Communist Party of China.

At the university, he joined the music faculty in 1938 and received one of Princeton's first Master of Fine Arts degrees in 1942 ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ).

Promoted to full general in November 1937, he joined the Army General Staff in July 1938.

James Carreras joined Exclusive in 1938, closely followed by William Hinds ' son, Anthony.

In 1935 he joined the nationally popular Ben Pollack but at the start of 1937 left Pollack to join Benny Goodman's orchestra, where he stayed through 1938.

He joined the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group, in 1938 but, unlike his comrade-in-arms, Yitzhak Shamir who joined up at roughly the same time, was judged too young to engage in action, and wrote for some of their internal publications.

He was promoted to major-general in October 1938 and took command of the 8th Infantry Division in Palestine.

From 1933 to 1938, hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrated to the United States, Palestine, Great Britain, and other countries.

The Zionist leadership in the British Mandate of Palestine wrote in February 1938 that according to " a very reliable private source – one which can be traced back to the highest echelons of the SS leadership " there was " an intention to carry out a genuine and dramatic pogrom in Germany on a large scale in the near future.

A Jewish leader in Palestine wrote in February 1938 based on " a very reliable private source – one which can be traced back to the highest echelons of the SS leadership, that there is an intention to carry out a genuine and dramatic pogrom in Germany on a large scale in the near future.

Ralph Bakshi was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine ( now Israel ), as a Krymchak Jew.

By the end of 1938, however, the French government " no longer found it advantageous to allow Syria to continue as a base for radical pan-Arab activities, in particular those associated with the revolt in Palestine.

In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding ( GOC ) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan and was promoted to lieutenant general in January 1938.

In 1938 during the ' Troubles ' in Palestine he commanded one of Orde Wingate ’ s three Special Night Squads, the SNS of Israel foklore, for the leadership of which he was awarded the Military Cross.

In September 1938 O ' Connor was promoted to major-general and appointed Commander of the 7th Division in Palestine, along with the additional responsibility as Military Governor of Jerusalem.

Still, he refused to move to Palestine even when Stefania Wilczyńska went to live there in 1938.

Following the Arab capture of the Old City of Jerusalem in October 1938, the army effectively took over Jerusalem and then all of Palestine.

Accordingly, from 1938 Gilbert Mackereth, the British Consul in Damascus, corresponded with Syrian and Transjordan authorities regarding border control and security to counteract arms smuggling and " terrorist " infiltration and produced a report for Tegart on the activities of the Palestine Defence Committee in Damascus.

In 1937 Harris was promoted to Air Commodore and in 1938 he was posted to Palestine and Trans-Jordan as Air Officer Commanding the RAF contingent in the region until September 1939.

Zaslany also worked as interpreter for Patrick Domville, head of RAF Intelligence in Palestine ( who was described by Haganah leader Dov Hos as the " best Zionist informer on the English "), until the latter was posted to Iraq in 1938, and through him became acquainted with many of the British intelligence officers.

In 1938, he went to Palestine, then in the midst of civil war, to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, " between two lines of tanks ".

His 1938 book The Arab Awakening was written as Palestine was slipping from Arab control.

Wingate disliked Arabs, once shouting at Hagana fighters after a June 1938 attack on a village on the border between Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon, " I think you are all totally ignorant in your Ramat Yochanan training base for the Hagana since you do not even know the elementary use of bayonets when attacking dirty Arabs: how can you put your left foot in front?

In 1938 the battalion was posted to Palestine.

Abu Ali Mustafa (), ( 1938 – August 27, 2001 ), the kunya of Mustafa Alhaj a. k. a. Mustafa Ali Zibri, was the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) from July 2000 until he was killed by Israel forces.

Richard O ' Conner served as Military Governor of Jerusalem & General Officer Commanding, 7th Infantry Division in Palestine and Egypt from 29. 09. 1938 to 03. 11. 1939.

Following problems in Palestine, the squadron relocated there in 1938 reverting to the Army Co-operation role with Hawker Hardys, adding Gloster Gauntlets and Westland Lysanders later.

One of the Flight Commanders, Flight Lieutenant ' Pip ' Hillier was awarded the DFC after some 13 confirmed tank ' kills ', unfortunately he was killed in August 1942 whilst demonstrating the squadrons tactics to the press, having served with the squadron since 1938 in Palestine.

During a debate in the Lords in 1938 he spoke in support the policy of population transfer of Arabs in Palestine for purposes of developing the land and creating cohesive settlements, pointing out that similar transfers had occurred in Libya and other Arab countries without any protest.