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...interrupt a news story with a commercial. This has a "demoralizing effect...
...could, as well, cut off China's present lifeline and any alternates which the Allies might devise. He might, if he could get bases in Madagascar from the Vichy-french, interrupt the British supply line to Suez and the Middle East...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who has been a stalking horse for the Administration before, was the most vociferous. He called for convoying "without another day's delay or dallying." Shouting down all attempts of other Senators to interrupt him, he cried: "Do we want to let millions be crucified later because there is a jeopardy that a few might die an honorable death now?" The U.S., Pepper stormed, should get tough, "occupy the points of vantage from which these monsters are preparing to strike at us ... Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands...
...nearby offices of NBC and CBS were also hit by bombs that same night and completely wrecked. Among those injured was NBC's Fred Bate, who last week was headed for the U. S. to convalesce. When the bombing occurred, neither network had to interrupt its comment from London. Their copy can be prepared anywhere, and their broadcasting is done from BBC's bombproof basement studio...
Although Night Train, directed by Carol Reed, lacks the polish of its Hitchcock predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with...