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...Treaty of Versailles" (TIME, Sept. 22), much might have been different at Versailles last week. M. Briand ignored Herr Hitler last year, continued his peaceful rapprochement with Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend, but suddenly came the threat of Anschluss (TIME, March 30, April 6). Dr. Julius Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates...
...every knowing Roman knows, Benito Mussolini has two faces, the scowling imperial mask which II Duce wears on every public appearance before his countrymen, and the unassuming, jovial expression with which he welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that...
...because of any idealistic reason that men in the Engineering School should be part of the House Plan. It is not because their "scientific training" will blend with any "academic culture" to produce the ideal broad-minded Harvard man that their presence therein is desirable. The idea of a cross-section has been pretty well dispelled this year. The broadening influence of the House Plan can fairly well be termed an educational dream. It is, however, because Engineering School students are Harvard undergraduates as much as the men in the College that their inclusion in the House Plan...
...director of research in acoustics for American Steel & Wire Co., Chicago, reported that he had taken ''sound portraits" of the largest cities for the Chicago Noise Commission. Using the Westinghouse osiso which photographs sound. Dr. White found that 15 stories above ground the numerous small city jangles blend into a definite form, a characteristic ground tone. Each city sings differently, depending upon the number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York's is like the singing of a wire...
...omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter's at Rome, the Parthenon, and the Valley of the Kings": Roxy's he says "surpasses the impossible...