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...British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...
...full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three-quarter post they looked like one horse against the autumn background...
...most ambitious tour de force so far, Testament is Author Hutchinson's try at assimilating Russia: a Russian novel, with an all-Russian cast of characters, covering the last years of the War and the first years of the Revolution. In its length (693 pages), its crowded, turbulent background, its hero-intellectual (a Christ-like count who opposes both Tsarism and the Revolution), Testament is clearly patterned after the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...
...With Wings (Paramount) is the first Technicolor picture with an aeronautical background. It is also the first picture with an aeronautical background that attempts to take the long view of flying, not as hazardous profession or exciting adventure but as the latest and most spectacular chapter in the long history of transport. Starting with the Wright Brothers' first, incredible, 59-second hop, Men With Wings proceeds, with great pictorial beauty and praiseworthy attention to authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank...
...Background. When André Malraux met Ernest Hemingway in Spain (so the story goes), they divided the Spanish Civil War between them. Malraux took the story up to the Loyalist victory at Guadalajara, Hemingway after it. From the Loyalist as well as the literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves...