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This time Basil was ruthless. He got into the Ministry of Information and offered to betray "some very dangerous Communists" he knew, such as "the woman Green." Crooked Colonel Plum made him a second lieutenant ("There's a lot to be said for a uniform . ... best possible disguise for a man of intelligence") and said, "Catch a Fascist for me and I'll think about making you a Captain of Marines." Ambrose's magazine and Poppet's Marxed-up reflex to it furnished Basil with his Fascist. His betrayal of Ambrose is a piece of murderous...
...worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
...theory but as fact: Months before, 64 agents began filtering into Germany letters signed (it seemed) by members of that pro-Hitler, super-Cliveden Set, The Link. Their urgent gist: Linksmen awaited only a Sign, a Great Gesture on Germany's part, to overthrow a wobbling Churchill, betray England, end England's war. The surest conceivable gesture, they suggested, would be to open war on Russia...
...Hitler's plan is to wait until spring to finish the Russian job, last week's action on the Russian front did not betray it. Hitler's armies had all the appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
...year of Fascism without several things-without warm clothes, without an adequate supply of food. Saved from Bolshevism, Italy has handed her whole economic life over to hard-headed Nazi experts. Speaking in Trieste, Roberto Farinacci, Mussolini mouthpiece, hopefully told a crowd of 40,000 that Germany "will not betray" Italy after...