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...China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
Bedelia allows Margaret Lockwood to poison three husbands for their insurance and then commit suicide when her fourth begins to get the idea. Suicide, in the U.S., is a sloppy out for wrongdoers. A tidy U.S. ending will hand the murderess over to the cops...
...Allies to demand that Stalin lift the iron curtain is plain stupid. He is not yet ready to commit suicide. If intercourse is established between Russia and the people of the world, that will be the end of Stalin and Communism. The most gigantic fraud in history will be disclosed and its collapse will be certain. . . . Stalin knows the democracies better than they know themselves...
...dapper, scholarly Harold MacMillan, sent out from Tory headquarters to play the provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied...
Considered singly, each story is like a peasant hut of "the old country," crammed with populous, colloquial Jewish life. Most of the characters are credible: they haggle over fish, are starved or stuffed, often pray, sometimes forsake their faith, sometimes commit suicide. But occasionally Aleichem takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...