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...great people is truly such if it con siders its obligation sacred and does not avoid the supreme trials which determine the course of history." Now that France was struggling for her life-breath, and Great Britain was girding against invasion, Benito Mussolini cried: "We are taking up arms to resolve, after reaching a solution of the problem of our continental frontiers, the problem of our frontiers...
Ministry he chose General Charles de Gaulle, 50, a lanky, pale, mustached mili tary innovator who for 20 years has pounded home one point in theses, con ferences, articles, reports: if France was to meet Germany on equal terms she must have the motors of offense -tanks, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes. Charles de Gaulle had not long graduated from elite St.-Cyr when he matriculated into a tougher school -World War I. He served actively in Poland in 1920, inactively as a post war staff officer under Petain, then in Syria, then in Paris. Only three years ago he became...
...skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory military training rests on the belief as to Hitler's future intentions. On the basis of all the facts and statements of Nazi leaders to date, there is a distinct possibility that if Germany wins in Europe she will attempt an invasion of this hemisphere. How long it will take...
Said FORTUNE, commenting on a poll which seemed to show that labor scarcely knew its avowed friends from its alleged enemies: "Extraordinary is the fact that so many names that are prominently identified, pro or con, with labor in politics and labor in industry should be so far on the fringe of the workingman's consciousness as to evoke a 'Don't know...
...French film of the same name and a lively demonstration of what Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work on Zorina. This sinister frolic is almost as sure...