Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week printed the following story about Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 the President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped to meet him some day. Astounded Ataturk took this passing note very seriously, had his press print the praises of "revolutionary" Franklin Roosevelt, instructed his minister in Washington to ask the mystified State Department just when the President of the U. S. would arrive...
...ends. With the immense responsibility those powers entailed, he was in duty bound to state his ends clearly, hold himself in check in so far as those ends were not the manifest ends of the U. S. President Roosevelt's ends were known, definite, unneutral: by every means short of war,1) to help Great Britain and France win their war, and 2) to drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World War II began, when many thought that in foretelling the Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling...
...Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President's collar last week was the great debate on Neutrality in Congress...
...Liddell Hart doctrine thus inverts the saying that "attack is the best defense" into "defense is the best attack." To "strategic defense" he would add a "harassing offensive." frequent sharp, short blows delivered with surprise; artillery fire and air bombing to upset the enemy's supply lines and rest camps. The whole he calls "super-guerrilla warfare." Captain Liddell Hart comes to the conclusions which may startle those in the U. S. who assume that the U. S. will be drawn into the war and send another A. E. F. to Europe. He questions the wisdom for Britain herself...
...Fight for Peace (Warwick). When first issued for a short run in 1938, this brutal, literal, newsrealistic record of the war-torn peacetime between World Wars I and II looked like 63 minutes of unnecessary nightmare. Scripter Hendrik Willem van Loon, having cleverly piled up the horrors of four revolutions and four wars, rammed home his main point -that war is beastly-with more armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans...