Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best friends the League of Nations ever had, visited Rome last winter. There she hobnobbed with League-bolting Il Duce and was credited by diplomats with having done much to smooth the way for the Anglo-Italian Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month in Rightist Spain mainly to give Generalissimo Franco some idea...
...Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend in Beloit and visit there weekends. That isn't the reason I thought of this plan, but the R. C. T. emblem sure helps get a hitch...
...outstanding pagan philosopher is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, erudite and devious "ideologist" to Adolf Hitler. Last week a speech which he recently made in private to the Reich Culture Chamber was published in London. It showed with crystal clarity that not only German Jews but Protestants and Roman Catholics have reason to fear Alfred Rosenberg. Excerpts...
...have no reason for giving the world this picture of the moral decadence of the clergy, and would rather regulate this matter among ourselves. Reasonable men, like Cardinal Innitzer-although I would not even trust him out of sight-will, under pressure of established circumstances, find themselves compelled to submit, more and more, to National-Socialist leadership...
Many war pictures have dwelt, for purposes of irony, on the small gallantries of modern armed conflict. Grand Illusion does the same thing, but for a different reason. This time the monstrous irony is war itself rather than the lie de Boeldieu tells to save his friends, the flower that von Rauffenstein places on de Boeldieu's chest after shooting him through the stomach. For the heroics of ordinary war pictures, Grand Illusion substitutes a pastoral interlude when Marechal and Rosenthal try to escape to Switzerland, and a German peasant woman shelters them on her lonely farm. The pastoral...