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...German Thomas Mann is a citizen-to-be. Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...
...which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds to her the meaning of the one thing she has left when everything else is wrecked - the red earth of Tara...
Three weeks ago it was reported that 300,000 Russian troops had moved into Sinkiang. Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...
...Meanwhile, an "interim report" by Curator MacLeish modestly measured progress to date. Statistics: each Fellow takes five or more courses; the Baltimore Sun's Reporter Frank Hopkins leads with ten, ranging from American Constitutional Government to Byzantine History. Favorite instructors include Felix Frankfurter and Dr. Heinrich Brüning, ex-Chancellor of Germany, and Granville Hicks...
...flight tax was originally imposed during the economic crisis in 1931 by former Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning to shut off the flow of German capital abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish...