Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arranged by astute Phil Murray when the formal peace negotiations had come to a standstill after six weeks of intermittent effort (TIME, Nov. 8), this was the first time Bill Green and John Lewis had met face to face since an unpublicized meeting in a Washington hotel seven months ago. They mumbled greetings to each other but did not shake hands. Later when a reporter asked Mr. Green if it had been "Bill" and "John" again, Mr. Green, whose manner with the Press is not one of his strong points, flushed, gulped and trailed off with a weak "Well...
...stakes. Green as any card table was the big board at No. 10 Downing Street, and German diplomatic cards were dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret demands which Adolf Hitler and Herman Wilhelm Goring recently made to him (TIME. Nov. 29) face up before the French last week, in the presence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and Sir Robert Vansittart, who is in London the opposite number to Alexis...
...Free Hand/' Other cards laid face up by Halifax reputedly exposed Hitler's claim to a "free hand" in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that is, Der Fiihrer claims that Britain and France have no right to do other than stand aside in case Germany sees fit to use such pressure or weapons as would reduce Vienna and Prague to the status of vassals of Berlin. The British last week found the French as adamant against giving Hitler any such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies...
Rumania is about to hold a general election, and towering Statesman Titulescu stepped from his Wagon-Lit to declare: "In this hour of gravity I have had to return to my country to take part in portentous events. I am anxious to face my foes with restraint and courtesy. However, if they compel me to do so, I shall show them I can fight not only with the weapons of Geneva but with those of a gypsy encampment...
Hassard Short staged the production, and Albert Johnson designed the sets. The latter deserves special credit for his effective use of sweeping modernistic simplicity throughout. As for the work of Arthur Schwartz, the principal song, "I See Your Face before Me," will probably be frequently reheard, and such others as "I've Made Up My Mind," Fly by Night," and "By Myself" are at least tuneful enough for one evening. The show will undoubtedly have a warm reception here, for although it is not uniformly good, its assets are quite impressive...