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Following a long skein of sex-laden productions, the Fine Arts' latest offering is a program more in keeping with its name. The job of compressing 1000 pages of Feodor Dostoevsky's two best novels in to four hours filmfare is almost impossible, but the two features, one in French, the other in German, nearly succeed in their task...
Last week watchers on Britain's south and east headlands scarcely needed to look up to identify skein after skein of German aircraft which, from bases in Nazified France, swept over the Channel and swooped upon British shipping or soared on over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke...
THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL -Carl M. Chapin-Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone...
...good. Ambassador von Ribbentrop was greeted in London with maximum Foreign Office cordiality, but the skein of diplomacy at this point had only begun to unwind. Since the Treaty of Versailles bars Germany from having an effective navy of any sort. His Majesty's Government, while professing themselves willing to capitulate at 35%, asked other naval powers signatory to the Treaty of Versailles if they likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh...
Printed along with this editorial was a communication to the effect that Mr. Frankfurter had stated in a recent interview that the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities. While it is difficult to disagree with this statement, the important fact is that leaders of the state must AT LEAST have as a FIRST prerequisite "the virtues of honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold...