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Whatever the truth, the Nazi machine went into action in Kladno in a big way. Next day virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored...
...once Vernon and Irene are happily married, the sad curse of a story without "boy seeks girl" throws the picture into dreariness. To recapture some trace of excitement, the standby for heart-three--the World War--is sensationally exploited and used especially to play on the audience's martial sympathy Vernon's tragic death in an aeroplane clash is sentimentalized to the point of insincerity. Ginger Rugers is perfect on the dance floor; in tears she is just another girl. The real entertainment of the movie is the dancing, which makes it an attractive but not a worthy successor...
...operation that coolies understood and relished. Creeping past Japanese sentries on a quiet Sunday, 100 guerrillas raided the Japanese-owned Bank of Taiwan, bayoneted three guards, smashed open the safes, grabbed $260,000 in notes, $90,000 in silver coins, escaped with a 20-minute lead. Baffled Japanese clamped martial law on the city that night, lifted it again before daybreak...
...line of treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration...
...mail) is 75% feminine. Her writings are important not so much for fortifying those sentiments, as inclining an already sympathetic democracy to side more strongly with its sisters. More important is the degree of action with which Mrs. Roosevelt would back up her sympathies, the amount of martial iron she instills into her women's blood...