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Firmly for aid to Britain is a majority of the nation's press, but one isolationist organ last week stood in splendid isolation -Scribner's Commentator, a magazine which was till recently a mumbling mouthpiece for radio analysts, crooners and comedians...
...pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find a single word to say about the purpose of the war. They do not pray for victory...
Christmas recordings there are aplenty, to suit every taste and humour. Recorded by Victor on the Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung...
...Turkish press, long held in check, assumed a sudden truculence. "If we are forced to choose between fighting like lions or being driven like sheep ... we shall not hesitate to give an example of virile courage that will astonish the world," wrote the Government organ Ulus. "The boasted equality . . . means nothing but equality in slavery under Germany and Italy," scoffed Yeni Sabah...
...Japanese had the white inhabitants of Shanghai in check, they still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching...