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...shutting up shop, liquidating. In explanation reticent officials of Amkino had little to say. Boiled down that little was: business is bad-Soviet talkies have always been less popular in the U. S. than Soviet silent films; Soviet films are not so good as they used to be; the Moscow-Berlin pact and the invasion of Finland finished Russian pictures in the U. S. One admission Amkino officials made might or might not be direly significant: for some time Russia has not been sending Amkino any new films...
Commonly considered a Communist-steered organization is the American League for Peace and Democracy (see p. 16), of which Bill Spofford is vice chairman, and another clergyman chairman: Methodist Dr. Harry Frederick Ward, Union Theological Seminary professor. At its latest meeting (held after the Moscow-Berlin Pact), the League condemned Nazi and Fascist aggression, finessed Russia. Last week, without condemning Russia, the League mousily proposed against it the same sort of U. S. war embargo it had loudly urged against Fascist aggressors...
...Edmondo Rossoni, Minister of Agriculture, gentlest Cabinet Minister, who used to see everybody, promise everything, do nothing. Stanch friend to Soviet Ambassador Boris Stein, he had hoped that the Moscow-Berlin and Rome-Berlin Axes might mesh...
Still silent remained Il Duce's own paper Il Popolo d'ltalia (to which all Fascist Party members must subscribe), unwilling yet to attack Joseph Stalin or to slam the Moscow-Berlin Axis. There will be time enough for that when it becomes certain that Joseph Stalin is going to thwart Benito Mussolini's ambitions in the Balkans...
...each seemed bound to lose allies as a result of Hitler's bombshell, simply because a readjustment of forces had taken place, the Axis was the first to lose. Nor did the newly launched Moscow-Berlin collaboration, whatever its fate, future, purpose, gain when Tokyo broke with Berlin, her former Axis partner...