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GUILTY MEN- "Cato"- Stokes...
...author of Guilty Men ("Cato") shrouds himself, for reasons which nobody seems to know, in a thick British fog. He has been guessed to be Winston Church ill's son Randolph, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon...
When "the apple blossom of Bewdley" made way for "the hardware of Birmingham," Neville Chamberlain, the era of grand blunders had begun. High point, of course, was Munich. "Cato" does not believe that Chamberlain had to back down at Munich. Said the Prime Minister to somebody who questioned Hitler's promises at Munich: "Ah, but this time he promised...
...officers saw it, invited Representative Collins to take a look. Each Nazi demonstration of the weakness of flesh against battle wagons convinced Collins that the picture would show Congressmen how mechanization worked, as his words never could. Two days after they had seen the film, Representative Collins, stubborn as Cato, asked for the floor to deliver his favorite speech. This time colleagues filled the Congressional Record with flowery praises and apologies. Representative Collins' text: The wolf does not care how many sheep are in the pasture...
Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...