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...Allied situation in the Far East being what it is--decidedly critical--Herr Goebbels must do plenty of laughing when American papers, under banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...
...record testifies to his ability. Born in the Urals 60 years ago, he rose to be a Tsarist colonel before the Revolution; then he went over to the Reds. Always his jobs have been mental jobs-General Staff Operations Chief; Chief of Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, Russia's Staff School; Chief of Staff. He planned the invasion of eastern Poland in 1939; he beat Finland; he timed the great counterblow from Moscow in December. He has found time to write many heavy tomes, the greatest of which are The Cavalry, On the Vistula and the three-volume Brain...
When the ships tied up and the young Americans filed ashore, there was no row. A band from The Royal Ulster Rifles played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Britain's Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair spoke to the visitors: "Here perhaps you will join with us in withstanding assaults by our common enemy. . . . From here, assuredly, you will sally forth . . . into his territory...
What the anthem still needed most was not new harmonies but a singable melody. (A streamlined, octave-cheating version by Bandleader Vincent Lopez had failed to catch on.) Best way to sing The Star-Spangled Banner is still the conventional...
Russian Igor Stravinsky reharmonized the English tune which Congress in 1931 made the U.S. national anthem. Stravinsky's Russianized version of The Star-Spangled Banner is muscular and musicianly, but audiences don't like it too well. Last week Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony played first its standard arrangement, then Stravinsky's caviar-spangled version, asked the audience to vote its preference. Result: 203 for, 351 against Stravinsky...