Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light, fast-moving, neatly constructed adventure mystery. It is not surprising that there has been a great deal of attention paid to the directing of the picture; the dramatic course of events dominates every other aspect of the picture. Having taken some time to set the stage, Mr. Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief...
That mutual appreciation of national humor is an essential to good international relations, Mr. Maurois held, was fully borne out by the improved understanding of England and France in the past twenty years. "Good humorous criticisms of the foibles of other nations are an excellent way of building international good will," he went on. "For instance the acceptance by the English of my humorous sketch on the English army after the war shows how much more one book can do than hours of diplomatic bickering. There is a crying need now for a sympathetic book by an American on France...
...other hand, Mr. Hutton's keen perception of what will happen once war starts marks his work as a highly plausible piece of political prophecy. More than this, the keen appreciation of the highly unstable situation created in Central Europe by a power-crazed Fanatic makes Survey after Munich interesting and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in the preservation of world peace...
FROM the pen of an outstanding authority on Central European problems comes a penetrating analysis of the changes wrought in the continental balance of power by the Munich settlement. Mr. Hutton does not concern himself with the tangled threads of international diplomacy which led up to last September's conference. Instead he tries to point out exactly what the decisions arrived at may mean for the future of a war-jittery world...
...powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian dominion, Mr. Hutton evaluates in bold, logical fashion...