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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations which must arrive independently at its own decision. Last week that awful MUST had the Council thoroughly scared. In Geneva politicians jibbered about how they might be held to blame for a war, should they decide about the Saar unwisely or too late. All of a twitter, Sir John Simon, highest-priced lawyer in the British Empire and His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, begged his Council colleagues to hand the Saar instantly to Germany should the plebiscite turn out to be the Nazi landslide Sir John expected. In a terrific state of nerves...
Thus the League Council is accurately informed what will happen should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give...
Chairman of the new national Board is that dry, efficient, but not unsympathetic civil servant who was Sir Henry Betterton up to Jan. 1. In the royal New Year honors he unobtrusively became a baron (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they...
...went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...