Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fight for Peace (Warwick). When first issued for a short run in 1938, this brutal, literal, newsrealistic record of the war-torn peacetime between World Wars I and II looked like 63 minutes of unnecessary nightmare. Scripter Hendrik Willem van Loon, having cleverly piled up the horrors of four revolutions and four wars, rammed home his main point -that war is beastly-with more armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans...
France. Hidden in secrecy was France's Bureau des Informations. But the main French policy has long been known: "The brutal propaganda of the Axis powers has not always been favorable to their reputations. . . . We will not stoop to the showy advertising to which our rivals have resorted. . . . The propaganda of France must be of an informative character...
...have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
...They make war! We make war! . . . They say, All restrictions off on the most brutal instincts of mankind! We say the same, until once more . . . far from conquering our enemies we let them make us after their own image. So at long last, at the end of a ruinous era, we shall be facing again the question-which God grant us grace to face now before it is too late-'How can Satan cast out Satan...
RENO RENDEZVOUS - Leslie Ford - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two daring and brutal murders are cleared up by Colonel Primrose and misogynist Sergeant Buck. Another of Miss Ford's first-person stories, with her usual good plot and dialogue...