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...entire action of "Lifeboat" takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
Apprehensions. Arthur Krock, able Washington analyst for the Times, and longtime friend and admirer of Secretary of State Hull, could let neither friendship nor personal admiration stand in the way of expressing his own alarm at the U.S. drift into danger. Arthur Krock had found on all sides such disturbing cause for concern that he insisted "only a clear and candid statement by the President or Mr. Hull can remove these apprehensions...
Popularity-loving politicos fed the hunger by throwing the State budget radically out of balance. A succession of prime ministers, all of whom had begun political life as liberals, catered more & more to the pressure of important minorities. And along with this drift toward the politics of making the State a grab bag, there grew up in Italy a feeling that the capitalist system needed some kind of overall regulation. Both Right and Left wanted to be left alone to do their own "planning." And when various plans are offered, a coordinator is needed. Who could do the coordinating...
Dark days came for Poland as the Russians began to come out of their endless birch forests and drift westward, seeking a place in Europe. The era culminated in the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795. At the end, there was no Poland; Russia, Prussia and Austria had swallowed everything...
...Since the Allies never really held the invaded islands, the loss was serious only because the abortive sorties had caused the Germans to look to their Balkan outworks. One possible effect was hardly mentioned: the effect on neutral Turkey. The Aegean fiasco might well slow the Turks' recent drift toward active collaboration with the Allies...