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...Budapest, Dr. Geza Szullo, onetime champion of Hungarian interests in Czecho-Slovakia, told the Upper Chamber of Parliament that German-protected Slovakia was systematically abusing its Magyar minority, that Slovak propaganda was "making attempts to spoil the harmony between Germany and Hungary." This made the Senators so angry that Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky had to reply with a speech that was scarcely less inflammatory. Said he: "Hungary may have to take risks for the protection of her national honor. The Hungarian Government . . . will act at the appropriate moment." Germany shipped tanks and supplies to eastern Slovakia, concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Valley of Conquest | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...that Germany attacked Norway, German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenberg had a four-hour talk with Premier Molotov in Moscow. The Ambassador had some explaining to do, inasmuch as German occupation of the Norwegian coast would spoil Russian dreams of reaching the Atlantic. Next day Premier Molotov served up a new set of demands on the new Finnish Minister to Moscow, Juho Paasikivi. Chief demands: 1) immediate construction of the promised railroad across Finland to Sweden; 2) an economic agreement at once. If either the Allies or Germany invaded Sweden, it was almost certain that Russia would further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Where Next? | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Earnestly directed by Charles Vidor, this picture cinematizes Howard Spring's best-selling English novel about a best-selling English novelist, who, having sired an easily spoiled son, does everything he can to spoil him. Brian Aherne is the excessively fond father. Louis Hayward (with a popeyed, bigmouthed, knowing leer) plays the wayward son who, after failing to seduce his future stepmother (Madeleine Carroll), succeeds in seducing the daughter (Laraine Day) of his father's best friend (Henry Hull). In the book the son dies by hanging, in the picture he dies a hero in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...make a living, how to redistribute wealth, how to make liquor bottles unrefillable. But what has mainly wrinkled his brow has been how to end war. Like a good inventor, he tried to solve his problem the easy way: a death-dealing explosive which would annihilate whole regiments, spoil everyone's stomach for further fighting. Last week little, stocky, 53-year-old Mr. Barlow traveled from his office in Baltimore, Md. to Washington, and bounded into a meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. In a scarily matter-of-fact voice he revealed a formula for an explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barlow's Bomb | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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