Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gesture. Bigger news was that the British Government, after weeks of dickering at London and Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...declaration that opened the door to lurid descriptions in Nazi papers, agitation that all healthy citizens be made to carry passes certifying their freedom from the disease. But throughout Europe, though Italians feared late rains would cause wheat crop rust and Belgians that late fro.st would damage their potatoes, news turned on word of health rather than richness, movement more than stagnation, growth and not decay. Sunny days attended Queen Wilhelmina's visit to the Liege Exposition in Belgium, where Wuthering Heights packed them in and unemployment dropped 3,000 in a month. In Tallinn, walled capital of Estonia...
...Terry Ramsaye in Manhattan to crash the moving picture business. Ramsaye stuck and became the historian of the industry, but after a few years Pegler was hired at $250 a week by a company which promptly folded. He went back to newspapering, first on the Tribune, then the Daily News, finally the Mirror. When he retired from the Mirror he was writing all the editorials and Editor Emile Gauvreau's signed column. Pegler refers to Gauvreau as "that farcical Frenchman...
...Nazi editors and publishers responsible for what they print. Seldom is an attempt made to tell writers what to write or not to write. But worried publishers are quick to submit any doubtful work to the local party official. This gives the Nazis all the control they need. Book News (published in Berlin) now prints a green flimsy supplement headed "Expert Opinion." In one section are listed books to push, and in the other books to soft-pedal...
Nazis of lesser faith find it a long wait. Dr. Hellmuth Langenbucher, Director in Chief of Literature, in Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest...