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...leading roles in the film are played by Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese Army, and a series of statesmen ranging from an apologizing Tokyo of 1931 to an aroused Roosevelt of December 8, 1941. The scenes, all newsreel shot, tell a vivid story. In logical, almost childish simplicity, they recount the tale of Axis aggression, beginning with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, ending with the American entrance into the war. At the same time, Allied weakness is traced through the stages of appeasement diplomacy down to the critical period of woeful unpreparedness...
Thus "A World at War" is a lesson in historical perspective. Unlike propaganda films of the past, belligerent peoples can now see their own leaders made the inadequate statesmen that history will inevitably make them. They can also see the mistakes of the last ten years in a manner so clear and startling that even the most isolationist of the movie public will be forced to stop, watch and reconsider...
...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...
...Gatos, Calif., 19 "junior statesmen" were graduated from the Montezuma Mountain School last fortnight. They were the second crop sponsored by the Junior Statesmen of America, an enterprising organization with chapters in 25 California high schools...
...well-endowed Junior Statesman School (the brain child of Montezuma's smart headmaster, Ernest Andrew Rogers) is no ordinary civics course but a working experiment in grown-up democratic politics. Back in their own high schools, Montezuma's moppet statesmen organize chapters along the lines of their State government, pitch into local politics when and where they can. Typical project: In Long Beach, Junior Statesmen originated and pushed through the fingerprinting of the whole town...