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...Juan Negrin was replaced early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...
...efficiency, but it has an Army that would fight at the drop of a hat, and that gives Germany something else to think about. The Polish Army would now be no match for the Reichswehr, but at least it could rob Führer Hitler of another of his bloodless conquests. Moreover, Poland has an air force of 1,500 planes, and Poles are fond of saying that while Berlin is only 80 miles from the Polish border, Warsaw is 170 from West Prussia...
...them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
Practically applied in Danger Signal, the Adler-Bottome theory cross-fertilizes the problem novel and the detective story. In a bloodless climax the heroine psychologist (a Czech lecturing in London) extracts inferiority complexes and egocentricities like a dentist tweaking out a rotten tooth. Author Bottome patently exaggerates the omniscience of the psychologist, the tractability of her patients, shows that a novel about psychology and a good psychological novel are by no means the same thing...
...boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where...