Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond these, there were literally hundreds of other questions, major & minor, calling for prompt answers. Previous Roosevelt-Churchill conferences had been largely confined to military strategy. Now they faced tougher and knottier problems. Some of them: should France take part in the Pacific war? What of Rumanian peace terms (the Russians were waiting for an Anglo-American reply)? What if revolution hits Spain after Germany's collapse? What of the old, graveling question of Polish boundaries? What of postwar lend-lease to Britain? What-and this might not be too small an aside- of the U.S. election? And, finally...
Lesser parts are competently, though not brilliantly performed. James Monks, of "The Eve of Saint Mark," does the best job of the minor players as Cassio, another victim of Iago's treachery. Uta Hagen is a very frail and very dainty, but also a very spiritless Desdemona. Margaret Webster, who directed the present revival, plays Emilia, Iago's wife, completely straight. She adds not one touch of her own which would let the audience know whether she is working for or against her villainous mate...
...first-class international rumpus was in the making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
Memories. In 78 hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...minor one: dropping eight tons of maps of Germany to Lieut. General George S. Fatten Jr.'s troops last week as they approached the Reich...