Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealt with in a manner typical of the way nearly all great matters in the Fatherland today turn upon personal contacts with Adolf Hitler and his personal reactions. Much of the time the Führer is inaccessible to even extremely prominent officials, mystically cogitating in his Bavarian mountain retreat some 400 miles from Berlin. To get the ear of the Leader, much less to secure one of his usually long-delayed decisions, is an achievement in itself, but recently Army Commander-in-Chief Colonel General von Fritsch and a group of his brother generals found a magnificent excuse...
...Wall Street word promptly went the rounds that Mr. Whitney's retreat came after a bitter squabble in the utility family in which members of the industry brought pressure to bear on United Corp. to maintain the united front. Telling the story last week, Commissioner Douglas heaved a long sigh of discouragement. "What can you do?" he asked...
...baffled spirits move in long retreat...
...primary interest of "Conquest" is the portrayal of character, the story is of second importance. It must be said, however, that in this category the film is weak. There are glimpses of the Polish desire for independence, of the growth of Napoleon's empire, and of the great retreat from Russia, but little attempt is made to tie these strands together or to indicate their relation to the major theme. Moreover, the love affair itself is not logically treated; it is, for instance, quire impossible to believe that the Countess could hate napoleon in one moment and love...
...THIRD HOUR-Geoffrey House-hold-Little, Brown ($2.50). This mixed up English story begins promisingly as a tale of revolutionary adventure and buried gold in Mexico, soon turns into a monotonous thesis novel in which the principals form a new international order, build a retreat financed by the buried gold, debate communism, fascism, religion with Aldous Huxley's pacifism, little...