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From good, grey Cordell Hull, Storm's letter wrung a masterpiece of glacial denunciation and bad judgment. Argentine nationalists raged at the insult. Storni resigned...
...Producer Lewton has wrung an impressive amount of blood out of such turnipy titles as The Curse of the Cat People and The Seventh Victim. He did so largely, as he says, by placing "very ordinary normal people in extraordinary situations." This new film is his first, uneven attempt to show normal people in normal situations. It investigates two working-class families, the steady Hausers, who are old inhabitants of Euclid Street, and the unstable Taylors, newcomers whom war has brought to be next door neighbors. The Hauser parents, both hard at work in a war plant, are eager...
...isolated as the cause of fascism, says Flynn, it is the growth of an unwieldy public debt. In Italy, shortly after the peninsula was unified for the first time since the breakup of the Roman Empire, popular education and the modern newspaper gave Italians hope that abundance might be wrung from the bony ridges of their ancient land. But neither the schoolteachers nor the journalists could tell individual Italians how they might create that abundance. And so the first great prerequisite for fascism appeared: a wide spread hunger for economic magic...
Premier Per Albin Hansson, a cautious Socialist who plays bridge with the King and bowls with cottagers, found it militarily safe and politically popular to take back a concession which Hitler had wrung from Sweden soon after the fall of Norway: the privilege of shipping troops and war supplies through Sweden to Norway and Finland. The concession had to be made because Hitler could have conquered Sweden. It was withdrawn because Hitler no longer could conquer Sweden-and possibly because Per Albin's government believes that soon the Allies will be strong enough to take back Norway. This would...
From those who escaped Zygielbojm learned the full story of the battle of the Warsaw ghetto, in which the Jews killed 1,000 Nazis before they were slaughtered or packed and locked in box cars until they smothered to death. The last visitor also brought a message wrung out of the bitterness and frustration of the Jews who still survive...