Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still Waiting..." Although the German campaign in Poland was "ended" according to General Brauchitsch who left last week for the Western Front, the agony of Warsaw only increased. As the Vistula flows through Poland's former Capital, Warsaw was sliced by the Military Division theoretically into German and Soviet parts. But the whole city continued to resist while the High Commands carved it up on paper...
...Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled southwest, while the British got between him and his bases. In trying to head toward home under cover of mist and smoke screens...
...cast started off patriotically, keeping Britain's chin up with such songs as We Haven't Got the Jitters and An Air Raid Shelter for Two. But soon they were back at digging Chamberlain in the ribs and blasting England's slowpoke policy on the Western Front. Said a "communiqué": "It is officially stated that British troops have arrived in France and have agreed to fight on the same side as the French. A formula is being prepared." Began a song...
...picture of people afraid of being afraid, Journey's End has at times a batlike psychological terror more harrowing than the physical horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...
...Quiet on the Western Front (Universal). When Carl Laemmle Jr. produced this picture in 1930, critics hailed it as one of the few great U. S. films. When Nazis burned the book by Erich Maria Remarque from which the picture was made, the film was revived, again stirred U. S. audiences with its simple record of why men go to war, how they kill, how those who survive spend the time until their turn comes...