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...estimable Jack Oakie sparkles winningly in a good, simple, swift paced movie called "Florida Special". His amusing antics and rapid-fire humor show to advantage in the midst of the customary variety of characters including a wealthy old capitalist, his very spoiled niece, a charming hostess, the inevitable handsome playboy, and an assortment of gangsters. Young Jane Withers brings up the rear in a companion piece, a screen adaption of Tarkington's "Gentle Julia," which informs the fans for the current year that the nineties were gay and that true love conquers...
Even Chamber President Harper Sibley, re-elected last week for another one-year term, thought that U. S. thinking has been "tainted with sophistries of foreign ori-gin." But the long-nosed, amiable Rochester, N. Y. capitalist, taking a little longer view than his fellows, continued: "If the American people have given ear to false prophecies, they are not to be herded back to the right path by denunciation and abuse. ... It is a task for both business management and political management...
...Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist powers. Italy's War booty of the heavily fortified Dodecanese Islands are within a short cruise of the Dardanelles and Italy today is, potentially, as much an enemy of mighty Britain as of Turkey...
...effects of the capitalist system. As long as capitalism lasts, war will constantly threaten. Whether students or any other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose...
Laski believes, however, that if the transformation from the capitalist democracy to a democracy founded on the principles of Socialism is accomplished peacefully, that it will be possible to have what he termed "Real democracy" coupled with planning. "No country in the Western Hemisphere has a real democracy now," he said...