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...Rhine!" Action last week was possible largely because Mr. Baldwin took such fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty...
...schools-"Gee Whizz!'' and "Aw Nuts!''-and clearly prefers the latter. Toward press agents, City Editor Walker is tolerant: "Some are so useful and companionable that all newspaper men welcome them and their messages; others are such chiselers and bores that reporters and editors take fright at their approach." Edward L. Bernays, nephew of "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido, Dr. Sigmund Freud," is more important in Stanley Walker's estimation than the Rockefellers' Ivy Lee, whom he considers a hindrance to the Press. With elaborate codes of ethics pompously drafted...
...been dragged from her hotel in her night robe, flung into a stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims, and on top of it all, caught pleurisy, from which she nearly...
...deeper views. That audience, which has waded through the lengthy Buddenbrooks and clambered up the perilous slopes of The Magic Mountain, will not hesitate to plunge into the bottomless well of Joseph and His Brothers. Readers to whom Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take fright at the book s forbidding brink. For Author Mann's latest excursion toward the boundaries of the human spirit is in an uncharted direction, a descent into the past which is no easy tumble into a fanciful Avernus but a painful, foot-by-foot groping for handholds...
Last week when the peasants heard the child screaming in the birch forest they paused in fright for a moment, then rushed bravely to the rescue. And they caught the vampire, a wild-eyed, tattered boy stabbing wildly at a little girl...