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...like thunder in the Far East," he once said, "we will answer the attack with such a blow that the foundations of capitalism will quiver and crumble." Bluecher's voice was too loud for Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky, duly joined in the death sentence. The following year he himself disappeared, leaving the Japanese attack he had forecast to be belatedly met in the Lake Baikal region in 1939 by Georgy Zhukov...
...spent not much less time (four years) and probably more money ($4,000,000) on the production of this picture than Alexander did on the entire conquest of the Persian Empire, and there can be no doubt that, in some ways, his effect is even more shattering than the martial Macedonian's. The picture presents two hours and 25 minutes of continuously colossal spectacle in CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound. There are 6,000 people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments of the Spanish army were rented for the battle scenes, and a sizable slice...
Best Actor in a Single Performance: Lloyd Nolan in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial...
What is worth fighting for? West Germans, forming a new army eleven years after the Wehrmacht's surrender, are again debating this fateful question, and the old, martial German answers no longer ring true. Last week one of West Germany's 14 Evangelical Academies-which have been holding conferences for laymen to discuss moral and social problems-considered the sanctions for war in the modern world. At Loccum, near Hannover, gathered 120 military leaders, chaplains, bankers, white collar workers and clergymen from seven countries. First speaker was the secretary-general of the German Evangelical Church's annual...
...tough dictatorship is that it does not have to appease public opinion. In the early days of his rule, Spain's Francisco Franco showed no sign of caring what people might think about his repressive acts. But today Spain, a U.N. member, is a generation removed from the martial aftermath of its civil war. Last week Franco, looking for scapegoats for the recent Falange-student riots in Madrid (TIME, Feb. 20), found it expedient to appease two important blocs of Spanish opinion...