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...there is little doubt that the effect of Hitler's bombshell was as astounding to him as to the world at large. That an avowedly antagonistic, chronically suspicious France should wait four days before even calling a cabinet meeting to dispatch any sort of a protest was incredible; but that she should furthermore tag along behind a Britain become singularly prudent probably exceeded his fondest expectations...
...these eight short stories, three were included in Author Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect...
...famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress of 1,500 'shock-brigade collectivists' from all parts of the U. S. S. R., which has just ended its session in Moscow. . . . [TIME, Feb. 25.] As the recent abolition...
Complete Soviet malnutrition returns for 1933-34, good, bad or indifferent, will scarcely be in before 1937. Last week a Times headline writer slapped above Moscovite Duranty's dispatch the capitals...
...leaves home to make his fortune, returns in manhood to be robbed and murdered by his greedy parents who fail to recognize him. Every few months this item, with setting and characters changed, pops up as gospel fact. Last month the Associated Press carried the story as a news dispatch from Oravisa, Yugoslavia (TIME. Jan. 28). Last week Hearstpapers printed a Universal Service report beginning thus...