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When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, every patriotic young German eagerly looked to the day when Germany would eliminate the Polish Corridor which joins Poland to the Baltic and separates the flat lands of German East Prussia from the rest of Germany. In 1934. with many troubles on his back, Adolf Hitler shrewdly pacified one enemy by signing a treaty with Poland promising not to agitate the Polish Corridor question for another ten years, a treaty violently unpopular among Germans...
...hand-picked chairman of Pennsylvania's cinema censorship board is Peggy Palmer, whose late husband A. Mitchell Palmer, as U. S. Attorney General, was the greatest Red-baiter of his day. In a hearing of an appeal against the board's banning of the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy, Mrs. Palmer last week showed her particolors. Her testimony: "The acting was the most magnificent I have seen since I've been on the board. ... I don't like Communism, so the picture is not the type I want to see shown in Pennsylvania...
...committee also picked a baker's dozen of "outstanding performances," this time ducking behind an alphabetical redan: Harry Baur in The Golem, Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion, Charles Boyer in Conquest, Nikolai Cherkassov in Baltic Deputy, Jackie Cooper in Boy of the Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently...
...critical reviews which conclude the issue are timely and well done--especially the excellent essay of Mr. Dow on two recent films, the "Life of Zola" and "Baltic Deputy...
...notable for their church domes. Scores of mammoth new enterprises were erected. A quarter of a million prisoners-a larger number of slaves than the Pharaohs mobilized to build their pyramids, than Peter the Great mobilized to build his new capital-hacked a canal between the White and the Baltic Seas. . . . Two-thirds of the peasantry and four-fifths of the plowed land were 'socialized' -that is, owned and managed by the state-employer as it owned and managed factories and workers. The defensive ability of the country, in a military sense, had been vastly increased, with...