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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltic powers: Germany and Russia. Buffers can also be jump-off points for invasion, and in invading Finland, Joseph Stalin was clearly protecting himself against the friend he has never met, Adolf Hitler. At the same time, no matter what are her other commitments with Russia, Germany cannot look with equanimity on any move which upsets the buffers and the balance in the Baltic...
...worse than that of Western Europe's Great Powers. Well might Germany tremble at the thought of Russia's controlling the rich iron mines of Sweden. Well might Great Britain fear the establishment of a Red Fleet in Norway's impregnable fiords. Italy might well look forward to Balkan aggression by a Russia secure in the north. Throughout the world, people whose faith in democracy remained might well blanch at the prospect of a totalitarian attack on the nations where democracy has been most liberally applied. But it was Sweden which owned those coveted mines, and Norway...
...could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...
...public wants to see Society, it can go to the opening of the opera. If it wants to see movie stars, it can hang on the ropes at any Hollywood opening. But if it wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...
...Herbert (Paramount) opens with a stern view of the bulgy, bobbing little maestro tripping down the centre aisle of a theatre to conduct a synthetic Victor Herbert operetta. When he turns to make his bow, the audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed up to look like the composer. But few people who go to see The Great Victor Herbert will give a tenor's whoop what Victor Herbert looked like. They will want to (and will) hear Allan Jones and Mary Martin sing Victor Herbert's lilting tunes with freshness and charm...