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This is the greatest mass of rabble-rousing ever compiled-some 100 of Hitler's speeches in one volume-and, in the words of New York Times Critic Charles G. Poore,"the greatest anthology of broken promises." Editor: Franco-American Newspaperman Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Its 987 pages cover the Hitler rhetorical record from an obscure speech in 1922 outlining the seven "most important fundamental principles" of Naziism, which was unnoticed even by the German press, to his proclamation of war against Russia, which was flashed to the whole world...
...Harvard kouprey, an old adult bull, was shot by Mr. Francois Edmond-Blanc, member of a Franco-American scientific expedition to Indo-China. The ox was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology by James C. Greenway, Jr. of the Museum staff, who was also a member of the expedition...
Forty million Frenchmen think of the U. S. as the country of skyscrapers, rattlesnakes and riches, democracy, oil, ice water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings...
...anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start this week (TIME...
...Juif Polonais (Franco-American Film). French Actor Harry Baur in a well-worn rococo melodrama, first produced on the Paris stage...