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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of bending like a reed before the Nazi storm, then snapping back with General Syrovy like a whalebone, President Benes meanwhile attracted some aid from the ever-cautious Soviet Dictator. For once, Joseph Stalin, ordinarily content to leave Russian foreign policy largely to Maxim Litvinoff, who was at Geneva all week (see p. 16), suddenly bestirred himself in Moscow. The Soviet press was not permitted to announce the fact, but the Kremlin flashed to Warsaw a drastic threat that, if Poland should invade Czechoslovakia, Russia would at once denounce her 1932 Treaty of Non-Aggression with Poland and "march...
...hate having to write this book. Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into some-thing like a mixture of dirty rags and cat's meat you would realize this fact as intensely...
...projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst in and they are deafened for life. It occasionally kills people outright without any obvious wound...
Moussorgsky-Cailliet: Pictures at an Exhibition (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Ever since titanic, rum-nosed Russian Composer Moussorgsky wrote an innocent little set of piano pieces called Pictures at an Exhibition, other musicians have been busy dressing it up in fancy and irrelevant orchestrations. Most famous of these is the late Maurice Ravel's, to which Orchestrator Lucien Cailliet's adds little. Performance and sound-reproduction are excellent...
Missouri Legend is stale bread, but bread that is bound to fall butter side up because both sides are buttered. On the one side, there is the romantic bad man and all the melodramatic hokum ever devised, including the widder woman preyed upon by the wily banker. And if this side does not please sophisticated Broadway as it once pleased a gaslit Bowery, there is Playwright Ginty's nimble kidding and drawling backwoods humor to save...