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...Latin American cannot be expected to react exactly as we do because he lacks 1) firsthand experience of the sustained and healthy functioning of democracy, 2) the fundamental mistrust of Hitler's word, fed in North Americans by the feeling of intimacy with the tragedies of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., given us by our press, our great magazines, our radio, which after all have no true counterpart even in the wealthiest metropolitan centres [in South America], and 3) sentiment or love of any kind for the British Empire...
Last week light-living Bob Boothby was found to have been guilty of more serious financial carelessness. After Germany took over Czecho-Slovakia and Czech funds in Great Britain were blocked, he acted as front man between British Treasury officials and Czech citizens who were trying to get some of the blocked funds. A Parliamentary committee investigating his activities reported last week that Go-between Boothby had received some $4,000 in expenses and had also had a financial interest of $96,000 in the unfreezing of certain Czech assets. This circumstance was made worse, the committee found...
...recognized harmonious cadences between Axis plans and his own ambitions. He was present in Munich when the mold for Europe's "New Order" was laid, and when, as a consequence thereof, Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, he snatched morsels for Hungary. In 1939, he led Hungary out of the League of Nations and joined the New Order triumvirate as the first outside power. "I have formal assurance," he declared, "that Germany does not intend to attack either Rumania or anyone else." A few months later he was in Rome pleading with Mussolini to dissuade Hitler from occupying Hungary. War brought...
...name was Decision, and it called itself "a new forum for the creative spirit." Most distinguished thing about Decision was the list of writers and intellectuals who had banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
Like Blackout, Night Train has a spy-story pattern pasted against a war background. It begins in Czecho-Slovakia, moves to England, hurries back to Germany, then to Switzerland during a hectic scramble for the possession of a Czech scientist (James Harcourt) with secret plans in his head for a new type of steel plate. His trim, saucy daughter (Margaret Lockwood) strings along, meets with handsome British and German intelligence officers (Rex Harrison and Paul von Hern-reid), scrambles matters by failing to recognize for some time Mr. Right...