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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later gave the word a new meaning, linked it to organized, wide-scale lying, the deliberate manufacture of atrocity stories, misrepresentation of enemy aims, minimizing of enemy successes, exaggeration of enemy defeats, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. The pattern of propaganda remains the same, though varying in degree and accent according to the country it comes from. The threefold task of propaganda ministries will still be in World War II as it was in World War I: 1) to undermine enemy morale; 2) hearten home...
...allow those hours of darkness to become hours of inactive gloom. The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover...
...Among lenitives of other kinds many people will give a high place to the daily cross word. . . . Specially fortunate in wartime evenings is the chess player with a friendly opponent on the other side of the table. . . . A lenitive wisely used will lessen strain, will increase courage and composure, will help us through the hours of darkness, literal and metaphorical, to the sunlight that surely lies beyond...
...notable exception among the foreign countries being given the bee: the U. S. Tokyo newspapers suddenly began to notice the importance of U. S. markets. A Japanese airline official turned up in the U. S. to make arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across...
...salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom Lady Esketh wickedly sets her cap. While...