T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1935 is published.

Max Ernst paints La Ville Entiere.

Aldous Huxley's novel Eyeless in Gaza is published.

Robin Hyde's novel Passport to Hell is published.

Piet Mondrian paints Composition in Yellow and Black.

Meret Oppenheim produces her Fur Breakfast, a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon.

Leni Riefenstahl's documentary movie Olympia is released.

Georges Rouault paints The Old King.

Simon Vestdijk's novel Meer Visser's hellevaarb (Mr. Visser's Descent into Hell) is published.

The Soviet Communist Party begins its Great Purge. By 1938 an estimated ten million people will have died.

9 Jan.

Noel Coward's plays The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers are staged at the Phoenix Theatre in London.

30 Jan.

American president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes an inter-American conference on Western Hemispheric security.

4 Feb.

Switzerland forbids political organizing by National Socialists.

6 Feb.

Lithuania abolishes all political parties except the fascist Nationalist Union.

14 Feb.

Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan's play...