Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what the Belgian Premier had afoot was a deep diplomatic secret. The only rumor into which Washington got its teeth was that there was a plan in the making to have the U. S. take a direct interest in the Bank for International Settlements and supply some capital that could be used for stabilizing currencies abroad. But whether it was this or some entirely different plan, the mere presence of M. van Zeeland was enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French...
...dossier on what is actually happening in Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that . . . the visit to Paris of General Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face of the 72 Communist members of the Chamber . . . have a direct bearing on each other. . . . There can be no doubt that the General's visit was inspired by the British Foreign Office, anxious to break up the Rome-Berlin axis and establish co-operation between Britain, France and Germany...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
Monsignor O'Toole, known to be dissatisfied with the conservatism of Duquesne, last week announced his resignation and his appointment to Catholic University in Washington, whence he will continue to direct the Radical Alliance and, presumably, help finance it as he has done from the start...
...issue forth from Cambridge on the world this week there can be nothing but optimism. It can be predicted with confidence that no matter how the passage of time may direct events into unknown and uncharted seas, there will always be opportunity for men of ability. And with this ability, it should be possible for the young men of Harvard to shape their destinies. For it is to these men that the union in general and the University in particular will look for support in the years to come. There can perhaps be no better words with which to send...