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...tense silence tugged at the nerves of the vast throng crowded into Berlin's big, barnlike Kroll Opera House one night last week. Behind the splendor of flashing uniforms and shining boots there was a great straining wonder. Only a few hours before, Adolf Hitler had announced the secret summoning of his war Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with...
...following news last week: > Too preoccupied with her frontier watch, Rumania failed to mark a historic anniversary. Ten years ago a Rumanian Army plane brought Carol of Hohenzollern back from exile. Since then Carol II has learned well the trade of Balkan king, burnished his capital with western splendor, and stuck to his grandfather's policy of trusting no one. Last week King Carol prudently passed up anniversary fetes, lay low in his handsome new palace...
This has been a beautiful May day in Paris, with the horse-chestnut trees in blossom, and a rosy sunset over the Tuileries. Tragic splendor. Paris in magnificent. No nervousness, no panic. Paris waits in sad eagerness,. dramatic but sober expectation. The nation knows the danger, but knows, too, that it is fighting its won battle and the world's we are confident that the battle will become a victory. Goodbye, my friends. I do not say good-night. Tonight we cannot sleep...
...playing has little inwardness and no depth, but precisely because it is showy and spirited, it goes over big. An accomplished showman, Evans disdains jazz effects; instead, he scores Shakespeare richly for full orchestra, achieves a Stokowski-like splendor of sound...
...years the paper was a non-partisan record of events in Austria, a solemn register of Europe's wars and quarrels. The Zeitung saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, the splendor and decline of the Hohenzollerns. It published the official texts of all Austrian treaties, declarations, laws and constitutions. Franz Josef died in 1916; two years later the Imperial eagle on the Zeitung's, masthead was replaced by the single-headed eagle of the Republic...