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...Captain Anthony Eden at Geneva to have the League of Nations reject the terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week, war with England became increasingly probable as Benito Mussolini suddenly appeared tired, grave and grim in contrast to his high spirits and buoyant good humor up to the very hour last week before Sir Samuel Hoare resigned. In Italian opinion the last and most outrageous straw was the appointment this week of "Tony" Eden as British Foreign Secretary (see below...
...generally regarded as the first speech of his campaign for reelection. In finest fettle the President clearly demonstrated that after nearly three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures, harped on his successes; he made hopeful headlines about declining expenditures hereafter. And above all he seemed...
...Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...
...views. He lived contentedly with his motherly wife, his belligerently outspoken daughter, enjoyed a quiet love affair with the Fort Beulah feminine rebel despite his 60 years. As an alert editor, Doremus was interested in the rise of a Western Senator, Berzelius Windrip, commonly called "Buzz," a bubbling and buoyant individual whose personality and career closely resembled those of the late Huey Long. Windrip ruled unchallenged in his own State, built roads, enlarged the militia until it became his private army. When he got the support of Bishop Prang of Indiana, whose radio addresses reached millions. Windrip won the Democratic...
Last week Sacha Guitry offered a volume of reminiscence and anecdote in which such childish experiences were interwoven with buoyant observations on the theatre, genius, great actors and great hams; on the perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...