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Last fall Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had advised digging in for the Russian winter. Adolf Hitler had insisted on maintaining a double offensive against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Befehlshaber's New Year | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Shall such unity be brought about by a new feudal order with '"Jewish scapegoats, Slavic pariahs and Negro 'subhumans' . . . at the bottom" and "a militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variations by Schuman | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

General Wavell, who is honest with himself, lost caste in his own eyes. Nothing he admitted to the Indian Council of State is likely to change Winston Churchill's or the War Office's opinion of him. Nevertheless, his admission will probably be accepted by history as true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: Wavell Takes the Blame | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

In her 41 years, Helen Morgan ran a dizzy gamut: from a Chicago ribbon counter (Marshall Field & Co.) to a Broadway triumph (Show Boat). The songs she sang as the half-caste Julie in that show never grew stale though she sang them often. Even in the murkiest nightery, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Torchbearer's End | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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