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...President could thus add 39 Danish ships to the U.S.-British merchant marine; later he could commandeer some 20 or 30 Belgian, Netherlands, Rumanian and French ships, including the 83,423-ton Normandie, now quietly rusting at her 48th Street pier in Manhattan...
...Rumanian forces were reported moving into the corner where Yugoslavia meets Rumania and Hungary...
...acts the play is mostly talk-of the supercharged, characterful kind that Playwright Hellman writes. But even intense garrulity does not make the play move. Then in the last act the stage takes fire with the struggle between the German and Rumanian, with Paul Lukas' remarkable portrayal of the German sadly, sensitively explaining why he has been willing to commit murder, why he is determined to martyr himself, if need be, for the anti-Nazi cause. In this scene Lukas certainly gives one of the great performances of recent years. Veteran Actress Lucile Watson is excellent as Lukas...
...engineer (Paul Lukas) she married 20 years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been an underground fighter against Hitler and he is about to sneak back into Germany with funds for the movement. But his secret is discovered by another Washington house guest, a decadent Rumanian (George Coulouris), who tries to blackmail the German by threats of informing the Nazi embassy. The German finally kills the blackmailer, says farewell to his wife and children, and leaves on his frightening mission...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...