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...Coward was doing in the U. S. Said Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information Harold Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...
...week most Britons figured that they might lose everything even if Britain won, that they would surely lose everything if not; and they were prepared to devote much more than was asked to national defense. The News Chronicle called the budget "Timid and tinkering." The Daily Mirror'?, acid "Cassandra" wrote: "It's like its creator-chubby, cheery, ineffective, unimaginative and hopelessly inadequate. It limps far behind public demand." In plainer sight than ever was the plan of liberal Economist John Maynard Keynes to appropriate a part of everybody's salary, "hold it" for him until after...
...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
...named Parris Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father...
Mitch realized that with the Dominion parliamentary elections coming on March 26, "Canada at War" would do his Cassandra crusade little good. While he continued to rage against the film, accusing MARCH OF TIME of conniving with the Government, Canada at large lost patience with noisy Mitch, and his ban. "Arrant nonsense," snapped the Montreal Star. "It would be difficult to imagine any more puerile or childish action." Actually every country in the world except Soviet Russia and Germany would see the film, and Toronto newspapers republished its dialogue...