Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After selling his 1937 best-seller for $55,000, Author Bromfield, no lover of Hollywood, returned to his expatriate retreat outside Paris, thence prankishly dispatched identical telegrams to Constance Bennett, Kay Francis and Marlene Dietrich, informing each that she was his choice for the sought-after part of Lady Esketh. Harried Producer Zanuck got no peace until he solved the mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress...
EUROPE IN RETREAT-Vera M/c/)e/es Dean-Knopf ($2). Origins of Munich, by a Foreign Policy Association expert, for whom the pros & cons add up thus: the need of "fundamental transformation of the existing international economic order...
...effort for peace continued. Ambassador to Germany Sir Nevile Henderson had one last talk with Hitler, just to get everything straight. From this interview Sir Nevile flew straight home to report. For 48 anxious hours the Cabinet worked to settle on a formula that might mean peace without retreat. At last they composed their answer: urged negotiation, offered mediation, agreed to discuss the German colonial question, trade relations and even reduction of armaments-but not in an atmosphere of war. Hitler must settle his quarrel with Poland, and Britain would stand by her ally. Sir Nevile boarded a plane...
...Asia the effects of the treaty might be two antitheses. It might send Great Britain into the arms of Japan, in an effort to stop the Axis on the Pacific, having been forced to retreat 4,000 miles westward from the Vistula. Or it might blow Britain all the way out of the East if Japan and Russia patched things up and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was relabeled to read Rome-Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo...
Before they retreat from the main German border, the Poles may attempt an offensive into East Prussia where Hitler has soldiers who will "take" Danzig unless kept busy fighting off the Poles from their rear. The Poles are not likely in any case to' attack Danzig via the corridor for that would expose their rear to the main German attack. On a long neck of land called Hel, stretching into the sea near Danzig, the Poles have heavy guns and troops ready to be massacred by the Germans, but only after the guns of Hel have made a shambles...