Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends intimated this week, is bossing Eden & Simon hardest only because they need the most bossing, is giving plenty of scope to his more active and realistic Cabinet colleagues, such as Home...
...sired a manchild, Netherlanders will be wild with joy. Meanwhile the impecunious German princely family of Prince Consort Benno, the ancient House of Lippe-Detmold, are having some of their debts discreetly taken care of. It was learned that hawk-nosed Netherlands Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn recently made a quiet visit to Lippe-Detmold in Germany, made creditors happy to the tune of some...
...aroused Popular Front Deputies waited for their Blum to rush back to them and make a great public issue of "full powers." Instead, he closeted himself at 1 a. m. with assorted politicians, finally announced at 3 a. m- that his Cabinet had resigned, begged France to remain "perfectly quiet...
...Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking fests. Tjaden, wooing the mayor's daughter, gaily drapes bologna strips about his neck while hungry mobs riot outside...
Early in April Los Angeles' German Consul George Gyssling warned 20 of the cast of The Road Back of possible blacklisting in Germany, where Exile Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front was long ago banned by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. In response to an inquiry submitted by the U. S. State Department, the German Ambassador in Washington last week hushed Consul Gyssling...