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Darius Milhaud: Chants Populaires Hébraïques (Martial Singher, baritone, with the composer at the piano; Columbia: 4 sides). Six rather arty little songs by one of the famed "Six" of left-bank Paris...
...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...President, acting on reports from each Sudeten district, was now declaring martial law in those where bloodshed was actual or imminent. In Germany it was said that Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein were finding it impossible to get through to each other over Czechoslovak telephone lines, although Viscount Runciman talked from Prague to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden...
This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child...
Taking no chances, the court-martial suspended judgment until an investigation can be made of whether last winter the sergeant's wife and child really needed woollies. The final verdict: guilty...