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...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...
...surgeon's knife can reach into the brain to sever the tensions which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a new invention. It has been developed in Lisbon by Dr. Egas Moniz since 1935. But now two men who have pioneered this treatment in the U.S.-Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University-have published a book, Psychosurgery (Charles C. Thomas; $6), based on their work. Some 300 people in the U.S. have had their psychoses surgically removed, Dr. Freeman revealed last week...
Casablanca (Warner). Before the U.S. seizure of Morocco handed Warner Bros. some of the most dazzling promotion in years, Casablanca was just an exotic location for a topical melodrama. The city was known to European refugees as a desperate whistle stop on the underground railway to Lisbon. This picture is about some refugees who were stranded in Casablanca and some of the people who helped or hindered them. Among them...
...took three days for Government officials to question all the passengers, to inspect the 1,600 pieces of luggage. (It had taken six to empty the Drottningholm from Lisbon in July.) Some of the passengers came off in stretchers. J. B. Powell, fiery publisher of the China Weekly Review, had been terribly mutilated by the Jap. Some came off, only to be taken to Ellis Island for further questioning...
...first time Walter Graebner has been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...