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Willkie files today to Lisbon, where be will board a clipper for the United States, to appear in Washington and support President Roosevelt's all-out aid the Britain...
John Bull has written a message and sent it off by clipper plane today...
Next thing Axel knew, he was soaring south across Germany, tagged and addressed to Mr. Axel Andersen in the U. S. A Lufthansa plane landed him in Lisbon. The Clipper was so full of diplomats that even Axel couldn't be squeezed in, so he was put aboard the American Export liner Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel...
Flight to the West (by Elmer Rice, produced by The Playwrights' Co.) is the first Broadway play to deal with the world crisis since Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night." Its functional if unexciting scene is the interior of a transatlantic Clipper during a Lisbon-New York flight. The interior, is so faithfully reproduced that old Clipperites might expect genial Captain Bill Winston to wander in and begin expounding his sure-fire method of winning at roulette...
...Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young Jewish husband. Toward the end the liberal author reaches the conclusion that "rational madness" of the Nazis will eventually be overcome by the ''irrational sanity" of their enemies, which is at least a nice phrase...