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...death, as in life, his colleagues honored Boris Shaposhnikov. Headed by Marshal Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, Red marshals, generals and high Soviet officials shouldered his flag-draped, flower-draped coffin and carried it down the dimly lit Okhotny Road to a waiting car which took it to the crematorium...
Short (43 minutes) and inexpensive (about $30,000), the film is simply titled United States. It was written, directed, and produced by greying, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Eric Ambler, author of distinguished and popular thrillers (Journey Into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
...Then, in the blazing plane, death came to 42-year-old Ambassador Oumansky, his wife, and three Embassy officials. Nor for years had Mexico seethed with such tales of death and revenge. Madame Oumansky, it was said, had heard in the snapping of her suitcase the sound of a coffin closing...
...tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles by three ex-deputies, including Socialist Juan Antonio Solari, outspoken critic of the militarists. An editorial announced that the weekly had reappeared as a test of the Government's announced policy of permitting a free press...
Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the 281,344 captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...