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Certain significant developments might have meant that all this smoke did mean a trace of fire. The Fascist War Office burst into feverish activity. Berlin report-ed "important conferences" between Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Ettore Bastico, Governor of Libya and Com-mander in Chief of Italian forces there...
First under fire was Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, not for inefficiency but for efficiency. Several members feared that his new drive for tank production would take the emphasis off the building of equally needed planes. As a way out, Liberal Geoffrey Mander suggested that Beaverbrook be given a new ministry with power over all production...
...Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly about the smell of appeasement that Prime Minister Churchill was obliged to make his first Parliamentary statement on Far Eastern matters: In reaching this painful decision, said the Prime Minister, he had been guided by "the dominant fact that we ourselves are engaged in a life...
...original play by Robert Buckner and Walter Hart was a powerfully realistic portrayal of several interesting characters, whose development saved the drama from its unoriginality of plot. In the screen version, much of the realism remains, strongly bolstered by a good performance by Miles Mander, the father. Strictures of the Hays office have toned it down to a certain extent, but this is not its principal fault. Failure lies in the dialogue, which is often incredibly dull and obvious, and in the mediocrity of acting by Joel McCrea, Queenie Vassar (the grandmother), and Marjorie Rambeau (the mother). Ginger Rogers does...
...Mander's question sprang from the fact that U. S. exports to Russia, after rising rapidly all through the last six months of 1939, in January reached the highest figure for any month since January 1931 (TIME, Feb. 19). Germany has been boasting about Russia not only as an inexhaustible source of materials, but also a conveyor of supplies from elsewhere, over the Trans-Siberian Railroad, even over the Old Silk Road and other caravan trails...