Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAMSON (Henry) Patriot's Progress. With Lino-Cuts by William Kermode. Mint...
...Frothingham of the Women's Patriot organization is convinced that Dr. Albert Einstein should not be admitted to the United States. Her arguments are sound. Einstein is affiliated with the War Resisters International, the World Congress Against Imperialist War, and the Workers International Relief. Mrs. Frothingham's letter to the head of the visa department at Washington points out that in the past nonentities have been refused admittance and expelled for having views even less radical than those of Dr. Einstein. It protests against giving preference to the scientist. A test case arises here challenging the consistency of the lawn...
...Einstein is excluded, the Department of State will be criticized by intellectuals and liberals. Yet those intellectuals who esteem Einstein so highly have never given much thought to the problem of the unimportant pacifist spurned at Ellis Island. Should he be admitted, the Women's Patriot Organization will attack vigorously and with justification...
...effective as, for instance, Outward Bound. This one is not. It moves too slowly and its ingenious story idea does not conceal the fact that its authors were so dazzled by their plot that they failed to investigate its possibilities. Warner Baxter performs with the dignity proper to a patriot aware that he is dead. Ablest things in the picture are probably the work of its director, William Dieterle, and the shot of a crowd which has heard about the Captain's demise, parting in front of him as he walks toward the steps of the conference building...
Biggest war since the Versailles Peace Conference was between Russia and Poland, 1919-1921. Few people know that throughout that war a squadron of U. S. aviators fought in the Polish air forces. The story of the Kosciuszko Squadron (named for the Polish patriot who fought in the American Revolution) is told for the first time by Kenneth Malcolm Murray, one of the pilots, in Wings Over Poland, currently published by D. Appleton...