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...ZAHAROFF-Robert Neumann-Knopf...
...dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced the industries of the clay-headed colossus...
...world's most famed arms tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff, whom he had encountered in Nice: "He is what I would term an international merchant. There is no mistaking that he is a great figure in world business. I knew him first when he headed Vickers in England and have frequently met him abroad since then. He is getting along in years, as I am myself. I told him recently that he made one mistake and that was not taking the Press into his confidence. Because he did not do so, many mysterious stories arose behind...
Equipped with a commentary written by War Correspondent Burnet Hershey with the editorial advice of Columbia University's Walter B. Pitkin, Dealers in Death illustrates its theme with shots of European munitions factories, portraits of the de Wendels, Zaharoff, Eugene Schneider, the Krupps, together with maps, graphs, battle & atrocity shots. Since it is intended as entertainment, Dealers in Death lacks sincerity as propaganda. Since it contains large quantities of propaganda, it is weak in entertainment. Nonetheless, not even the hackneyed sensationalism of its method can completely conceal the grim power of the picture's meaning...
...ZAHAROFF: HIGH PRIEST OF WAR-Guiles Davenport-Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ($3). The origin, private life and political intrigues of the "mystery man" of the international munitions business by an excited U. S. journalist...