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...Marked for Thought Control, if it does not behave itself, is a certain Council For Launching National Policies, which is backed by that grey-bearded, ascetic fire-eater, Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society. The Council For Launching National Policies has been holding public meetings, and lately it sent a spokesman to see Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. The Premier had one of his convenient colds, so the Council sent the Government a letter of advice, with a broad hint that the advice had better be followed...
...Beirut. Sir Henry reached north for Beirut (where St. George reportedly slew his dragon) with two columns. As his reach continued, the columns joined at Tyre, jabbed for three days at Sidon...
...highly successful Broadway premiere. He was anxious to get back to England to start work on either his master's The Doctor's Dilemma or The Millionairess. Said he: "I have a life work-one hit after another- only ready for me to make." The Reluctant Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney works thrown in for good measure. Unlike its renowned predecessors (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia...
...reluctant dragon turns out to be a poetic green and yellow beast with the voice and mannerisms of Ed Wynn and a kangaroo shape. He is the Ferdinand of the dragons. The story of his reluctance to do battle with a toothy old English knight is not the most exciting Disney product. But nowadays the chief hazard to each new Disney show is the astronomically high standards of its predecessors...
...Lion of Judah, Emperor Haile Selassie, King of Kings, who was ousted from his throne by the Italians five years ago last week. Houses were decorated with the national colors (green, yellow & red) and native artists were busy painting pictures of the Negus as St. George slaying an Italian dragon with help from the British Army. Togaed Ethiopians massed in the main square and cheered as a radio announcer read out the names of the first 250 Italians to be sent to internment camps, while some 10,000 Italians moved into ghettos to await internment or deliverance...