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With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered...
With trouble in Libya, trouble at home, and big trouble in the Balkans, Great Britain last week was afraid that she had trouble in Paradise as well. By week's end this month's uprising in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden, showed no signs of normal simmering down, seemed instead a nasty threat to the carotid artery of the British Empire, the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline...
...Garter is in the grand romantic manner. But the play's best view is Katharine Cornell herself, once described by Shaw as "a gorgeous dark lady from the cradle of the human race -wherever that was-Ceylon, Sumatra, Hilo, or the southernmost corner of the Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with...
Elected director of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week (to succeed new Aid-to-Britain Expediter William Averell Harriman) was Ernest Eden Norris, president of Southern Railway. Director Norris' last association with Western Union was as an $8-a-month operator in Hoopeston, Ill. in the 1890s. When a visiting inspector found that his cronies had turned the office into a clubroom, he was fired...
...Britain and Anthony Eden's "unflinching aid" to Greece, it was announced in London that Italian military equipment captured in Libya was being rushed to Greece, but the whereabouts of Britain's Army of the Nile was still unknown...