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The late General Kurt von Schleicher, who was murdered in the Nazi purge by SS Guards, once described von Papen as: "The kind of traitor beside whom Judas Iscariot is a saint."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Iscariot to Ankara | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Not many writers can sustain a literary reputation on the strength of one short story. But for almost ten years that has been the achievement of Katherine Anne Porter. Probably no U. S. writer has been praised so highly while writing so little. The story that made her reputation was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Promise Kept | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Recounting their story with no Biblical diction, no religious fervor, and with nondescript, timeless costuming, Playwrights Coffee & Cowen make it plausible and human. To Mary they give dignity, and to her experiences in Jerusalem on the night of her Son's betrayal, drama. There is drama, too, when a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Reaction from both Arabs and Jews was immediate. Jewish delegates refused to attend an official luncheon given in their honor by the British Government. Said one Jew: "It would be like going to a Last Supper, with the British Government as Judas." Day after the British suggestions had been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Supper? | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

A good case in point is the recently published, unexpurgated, eight-volume edition of The Greville Memoirs: 1814-1860, edited by Lytton Strachey & Roger Fulford (Macmillan, $80). First published in an expurgated edition in 1874, nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unexpurgated | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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