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...leaving for Paris, Heath told a conference of conservative women in London's Westminster Hall: "We face a momentous test of will." The result of that test, he went on, would answer the question: "Do we have the wisdom to achieve by construction and cooperation what Napoleon and Hitler failed to achieve by destruction and conquest...
...capital," Mitchell proclaimed. Possibly true, but he seemed to make a triumph of what was at best an unfortunate bending of the law to meet necessity. He upheld it as a model to be followed in similar situations by other cities, and he also likened the Mayday protesters to Hitler's Brown Shirts. However troublesome Rennie Davis' legions were, for Mitchell to damn them as Nazis was hardly more precise than for them to label him, as they habitually do, a fascist...
...ears, she said, "not only stuck out, but they had no shape at all. They used to flap in the wind." Miss Miles' now unflappable ears have given her considerable self-confidence. Asked whom she would choose to be alone with for six months, she said: "Hitler. If I had six months, I might be able to corrupt him into something of goodness...
Died. Helene Weigel, 70, Vienna-born actress-director and flinty widow of Playwright Bertolt Brecht; in East Berlin. Already an accomplished performer when she married Brecht in 1929, Weigel later starred in his drama Mother Courage on the Berlin stage. Anti-Nazi and proCommunist, the couple fled Hitler's Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there...
...meet again those bungling French and British statesmen, the chaps who need not have gone to war at all, at least not at such a time on such a scale. Selling out Czechoslovakia with its 35 trained and ready divisions cut the heart out of effective opposition to Hitler in Central Europe. Allied military planners, on Liddell Hart's evidence, were little better than the politicians. He credits them with inviting Hitler's invasion of Scandinavia with loudly proclaimed plans to mine Norwegian ports and cut off the flow of iron ore from Sweden. Sir Basil thinks somewhat...