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...sentimental "I Heard You Were Lovely" attest to his composing versatility. Other songs we are likely to hear more of are "You're a Character," "America Marches On," and "Never a Dull Moment." Ella Logan gives a personality-plus presentation of the hotter numbers, while Christina Lind and Harry Stafford romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty-odd girls in the cast in laying it on with a capital S. Her dormitory-room strip-tease coached by Maxie and Sid gives the Old Howard touch with a riotous overlay...
...Premier Molotov left Berlin the British Foreign Office confessed to another diplomatic defeat. On Oct. 22, British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps had presented a note to the Kremlin offering a promise never to attack Russia, a guarantee of Russian participation in World War II's peace treaty and, ironically, de facto recognition of Russia's absorption of the Baltic States.* Britain asked in return only "a more benevolent attitude." Joseph Stalin's reply had been to send Comrade Molotov to Berlin...
Last week London buzzed with rumors of Sir Stafford's recall, which would be recognition of his mission's failure. The truth is that it was not so much Sir Stafford who failed as the British Government in London, which understands Russian sensitivity less than its Ambassador. While Sir Stafford was earnestly assuring Moscow of Britain's friendship, the Government froze the Baltic States' bank balances in England, refused to surrender Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian ships in British ports, and last month requisitioned several of those ships. All this served to deepen Joseph Stalin...
...nation in the world, became by virtue of the treaty the most sought-after power in the world. U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had vacationed in the U. S. while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard her northern frontier while she conquers...
Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...