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Life in the Shadow. Under the pall of smoke that turned light clothes grey and made eyes smart, Paris life went on last week. The omnibusses and subways continued to run though less frequently, the radio stations broadcast only martial music interspersed with news bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...
...descendants of the men who had conquered Britain and Gaul were expected to listen to these taunts and be grateful. Now, thanks to Mussolini, they have recovered the circumstances in which the martial glory, inherent in this long-abused race, can display itself as never before...
...Ahoy, landlubbers!" photographers climbed over everybody in search of shots and the band climbed down a rope from a hole in the ceiling. Everybody had a good drink but when they woke up the next noon, they found the Nazis were still in France and Hollywood was full of martial portents...
Song of the Road (Stellar Productions). During World War I Scottish Comedian Harry Lauder, 47, arrived in Manhattan and, with a troop of skirling, skirted bagpipers, raised the U. S. martial temper by stamping around with his crooked stick, singing We A' Go Hame the Same Way, The Wee Hoose 'mang the Heather. Last week, No. 35 of World War II, Sir Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price...
...sick feeling in their martial hearts and in the pit of their political stomachs was the main reaction of the Allied peoples-and their friends-to the withdrawal of Allied troops from lower Norway last week (see p. 25). Prime Minister Chamberlain's first incomplete "explanation" in the House of Commons (see p. 32) contained no restorative stronger than patience to parry the shock. At very least, the Allies had grossly, amateurishly muffed a priceless chance to gain by Adolf Hitler's expansion of the war. And even more gravely psychological than military were the implications...