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Michael Foot, just back from an official visit to Teheran, said this week that the Russians were likely to keep a "dominat ing force" in Azerbaijan and planned to control Iran's elections...
...handful of British and U.S. intellectuals a month ago petitioned Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence at the Niirnberg trials for a question ing of Nazi prisoners, to clear Trotsky of the charge of dealing with them. Among the U.S. signers: Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, Critic Edmund Wilson, Novelist James Farrell. Among the British signers: H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
...prime joys of the picture is the springwater freshness and immediacy of the lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops. Often as not, the brilliant Technicolor is deliberately anti-natural istic. Voice, word, gesture, human beings, their bearing and costumes retain their dramatic salience and sovereignty. The result is a new cinema style...
...swashbuckling, 50-year-old glamor boy, had more to him than the demagogical charm that caused a swoon ing woman to cry, "We want sons by Perón." More intelligent than his fellow militarists and politicians, he had noted the cracks in Argentina's feudal structure, turned them to his own ends. His method - the Putsch, suppression of civil liberties, apparent social benefits to the under privileged - was fascist. He had stirred up in the Argentine masses both hope and unrest that would not soon be stilled...