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Germany's large -scale mobilization which began August 15-dubbed "maneuvers" by the Third Reich's General Staff -was officially called off last week. In garrisons at Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Fürth and Königsberg at least 450,000 youthful reservists, happy that their Führer Adolf Hitler had got all he wanted of Czechoslovakia without losing a man, were in high spirits as they made ready to return to civilian life November...
Last August Cities Service began negotiating to sell its Michigan subsidiary to equally sprawling Commonwealth & Southern Corp., which serves 60% of Michigan (and some ten other States). Last week, providing SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission approve, the deal was closed for $3,200,000 in cash...
German imports from the Balkans increased from 198,000,000 marks in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, to 574,000,000 marks in 1937. Simultaneously Britain and the U. S. began buying less & less from the Balkans, which during the past five years have reluctantly sold more & more to the Nazis-mostly on credit...
...play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer's keyhole, prescient Poet MacLeish began it in the spring, rewrote it in August...
...Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion thus...