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...John Clement '36 was one of four men in the American Field Service who were captured in the outskirts of Amiens, the second night that the section was on the front. Working between two French armies, he was caught by the German Army during the burning of Amiens. Extremely fortunate not to have been shot, because, according to Willis, German tank corps take no prisoners. "We found many men who had been shot in the back of the head," Willis commented...
...French Republic their Government offered union to France without consulting Parliament (TIME, June 24). Last week in the House of Commons Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes put Britons' fear into a question. Would his Party's Leader and Lord Privy Seal in the Churchill Cabinet, Major Clement Richard Attlee, "give assurances that before any union of the kind proposed to France be put forward, he will give an opportunity for the fullest possible discussion by the House...
...makers of "Foreign Correspondent" the War is a matter of purely secondary importance. To Mr. Alfred Hitchcock in particular it is merely a road to his happy hunting grounds--a weird land of rain and mist where he can revel in his clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
...Nations and collective security. Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its privileges for the sake of national rearmament. Big business was in no mood to foot the rearmament bill. Winston Churchill might rave and rumble about the Nazi danger. But the Labor Party's Major Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison (now Minister of Supply) struck more popular poses as humanitarians, League of Nations advocates, good Europeans. Meanwhile the Conservative Party ran the Government, held the slippery balance of power by buttering wishful pacifist hopes...
When LIFE'S close-up first appeared, one week last month, reactions among Negroes were generally friendly. Out of 16 letters in Earl Brown's mail, 13 (from Negro readers like President Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta University, North Carolina's Sportswriter Dave Hawkins) praised Author Brown for a good job. Said Joe Louis, according to a friend in Detroit: "I ain't read it yet. If he makes something out of it, let him make it. I make mine fighting...