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Although America's recent pact with Spain involved only bases, the Spanish seem to believe it is a license for France's bold actions. And while the State department remains quick the British interpret the silence as mute agreement with France, who is eager to turn every diplomatic twist to his advantage...
...weighted almost throughout its history on the side of labor, is now one which favors a minimum of government interference in business and labor relations, and is much more inclined to judge each case on its own merits. Said Beeson: "Regardless of what the members feel personally, they should . . . interpret the [Taft-Hartley] Act fairly...
...with far better poetry, injected sporadic ironies and amusing lines, and allowed his non-cognitive audience plot and interrelationships which could be enjoyed on many different levels. The Confidential Clerk is less tolerant of its audience. Perched, in essence, high above the actual stage, it expects one to constantly interpret and mold Eliot's continuity out of what is, on first glance, obscure. In other words, one should really read this play before he goes...
Considering the fact that a good actor must interpret his role intelligently, The Confidential Clerk makes tremendous demands on its performers. As Simpkins, Doughlas Watson seems unable to grasp the plane between God and man upon which he should stand. Consequently, he seems a bit over detached. Claude Rains, as Sir Claude, although he reads his lines extremely well, seems to have an equally difficult time of deciding whether he should be hard and dominating or confused and sentimental. He is a little too much of the Latter. Newton Blick makes an excellent Eggerson, however. He is a blessed soul...
...that my arrest has been a "big headache" for the U.S. State Department because "Latin Americans . . . would unfailingly interpret it as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista." If the policy which seems to have dictated my arrest is continued, however, this "headache" will prove indeed to be a very minor one-not only for the State Department, but for the American people. They may awake one day to realize that the support of corrupt, bloody and hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with...