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Outside the Axis last week no important voice was raised in approval of any such plans-at least publicly. But several cogent voices talked of peace in quite a different vein. They thought that peace would have to be won by war, not by negotiation, and that, having been won, it would have to be handled with care...
...Italians, Heinrich Kurt W. Nostiz, an administrative clerk, walked into a room on the third floor of the German Embassy in Washington, said goodby, shot himself. The Embassy gave out that he had died of heat prostration, later admitted a suicide, tried to pass it off in the Hess vein by a yarn of mental illness...
...familiar hell-roaring vein, the Premier slid over defeats, bellowed the might of the Axis. "It is absolutely mathematical that in April, even if nothing had happened to change the Balkan situation, the Italian Army would have overcome and annihilated the Greek Army." Almost all of Greece would be occupied by Italian troops. Italian Albania would be extended. Italy's dead in Africa ("I cannot tell you today when or how") would be avenged...
...remainder of the cast are obvious tools in the hands of the writers' carefree vein. Arthur Margetson gives a polished performance with plenty of English as the philandering husband of Julia who finally forsakes his "Vermin in Ermine" and returns to the fold. Carl Harbord is thoroughly sufficient as spite-lover of Julia and a young accountant who gets way out of his depth to sink ingloriously in the end. And the rest are all good, heavily-accented English characterizations. It won't be theatre weather when "Theatre" hits New York, but fast lines and a fine cast should hold...
Nostalgic reminiscences on the pre-1929 era of decadence, short skirts, and "tout ce qu'il-y-a plus chic" partake of one of the strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended...