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...Station Locker. Following Mrs. Durant's directions, MPs searched the house in Hudson, found some $500,000 in miscellaneous loot. The family was using a 36-piece, solid gold table set in the kitchen. But the most valuable treasure, the $2,500,000 worth of loose gems, was still missing. Colonel Durant had put them in the hands of a fence. Finally, he telephoned the stolen goods dealer, told him the jewels were hot. After an hour the fence called back. Following his direction, Durant led MPs to a dime-in-the-slot locker in Chicago's Illinois...
...Night in Casablanca" is a funny picture, but far below the capacities of the Brothers Marx. Its primary fault lies not in the plot, but that there is a plot at all, which, vaguely, concerns a group of post-war Nazis and their attempt to transfer stolen European loot to South America. Director Archie Mayo, evidently a man with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts the Marx Brothers out of much of the fun, giving Sig Rumann-labelled...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...Combat-happy Red Army occupation troops who, until recently, had terrified Germans with their merry rounds of loot and rape, were being replaced by more disciplined units from Russia...
...world wars have implied the inability of capitalism to keep peace on earth, have forfeited the good will of Europe's desperate men & women. The plundering Nazis, whose continental loot is all but impossible to reassign to its former owners, have prepared the socialization of Europe's economic wealth. "Millions of Europeans consider its nationalization or socialization a most natural and obvious measure. This is what is being done, as I am writing, with mines, factories, banks and insurance companies in France. It is a step in the direction of socialism." Like most of his school, Author Scott...