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...longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series he did for The New Yorker, "Let Your Mind Alone," has now been collected in another small volume. Connoisseurs welcomed such old favorites...
...become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise and clever as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is certified to be by practically all the universities in the world. It's too much." And he can still clap down the nutshell on the elusive generality-this one is Life: "Dusty grayish events with a lot of rather forced laughter and streaks of downright painful and disagreeable experiences. Uncalled for inflictions. And a perpetual menace...
Between Italian Fascism and its German imitation, one of the marked differences has been the Italians' unconcern about Jews. A small but ominous clap of anti-Semitic thunder rang out in Italy last week. Writing in II Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create...
Another thunder-clap followed next day. Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista aimed at one particular Jew, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, French member of the famed banking family. Boomed Farinacci: "Rothschild offered plenty of help to that brigand Haile Selassie. ... He finances all anti-Fascist movements and now prefers to live and amuse himself in Florence...
...hundred feet in the air the quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were...