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During the War the safest place in Europe was Spain, but Trotsky is physically no coward, and it was only to find outlet for his pacifism that he went to Spain. Pestered there by the police, he soon skipped on to Manhattan. After writing his immortal philippic on chewing gum...
Election prospects revolve around the Conservative Premier, his official opponent Liberal Party Leader William Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against...
Last week as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Bancroft had the ears of the nation when that tight little body of scientists met in Cleveland. He shouted an angry tirade against medical scientists who had long scoffed at his chemical conclusions. His philippic delighted the multitudinous...
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (Warner). Asaph Holliday (Charles Ruggles), hero of this picture, is a journalistic guppy, small, ashamed and ludicrous, writing timid editorials in a journal of opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He...
ARTISTS IN UNIFORM-Max Eastman- Knopf ($2.50). Like some religious sects, Communism is intolerant of criticism, quick to anathematize and excommunicate heretics. U. S. Communists, provincial to Moscow, are even more rigid than their Mother Church. For defending Exile Trotsky against Dictator Stalin, Max Forrester Eastman was sent away from...