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...without dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry, but indestructible." Relieved of its pamphleteering and moralizing...
...last battle. One thing he does not want to see when that time comes is the helpless confusion that clogged France's roads, paved the way for German victory last year. Mr. Churchill's thoughts this week crystallized in a foreword to a leaflet, Beating the Invader, telling 46,000,000 Britons how to behave when and if the Nazis come...
After the Greek surrender an Axis leaflet bombing told the Corfiotes it was time to give up. Corfu's civil, religious and military authorities conferred, decided to give themselves up to the Germans rather than the Italians. Their excellent reason: while the Germans might someday return the island to Greek control. Italy, once she had swallowed it, would never disgorge such a strategic tidbit...
...leaflet issued by the Mazzini society points out that German domination has brought nothing but misfortune, and urges the Italian public in this country to remain aloof from fascist propaganda, remembering that the patriotic Italian need not be a fascist...
...recording of Ein Heldenleben, by Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra (Columbia: 10 sides; $5.50). It was well recorded but not the best ever (most sweeping performance is Victor's 1928 version, by Willem Mengelberg). What made news about Rodzinski's Heldenleben was the program leaflet which did not accompany the records-because it was suppressed. Said the leaflet, written by Musico Nicolas Slonimsky...