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Preparing for the meeting, diplomats last week reviewed the two months of Big Three relations attending the European war's end. As the cohesive element-a common, dangerous enemy-dwindled away, relations obviously worsened. Peace disclosed deep conflicts of purpose and method which in future decades would try the skill of diplomats and the wisdom of statesmen. But many of the last two months' "issues" were mere pinpricks and needle jabs, magnified to dagger thrusts by the tension of the times. Already some of them looked pretty silly...
...mouths spawning the brain-roe of tired little men . . .") but was sourly suspicious of radio-born comedians: "A comedian who has had only radio knows only the reactions of transient mobs, who float from program to program posing as audiences, and tends to gear his antics [to] this moronic element, forgetting the millions of intelligent listeners...
Perhaps the most destructive source of all to the tragic element of the play is the diction of several of the players. Blanche Yurka and Bert Lytell, as the hero's parents, are adequate in poorly-constructed roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around...
...Problems facing the military government were as complicated as is the entire issue of Austria. To begin with, the Nazis had burned all the city records, including food-rationing files. Worst of all was the fact that Salzburg had always been plagued with a strong element of ardent Nazis, whose numbers were augmented by thousands who streamed in from Germany...
...direct contrast to Dr. Zlatowski, the second speaker, Professor Thaddeus Rasziuski, formerly of the University of Cracow, attacked the Warsaw Provisional Government as "a government organized in Moscow, by Moscow, and composed of a communistic element which did nothing to help defend Poland." After questioning the legality of the Lublin Government, Professor Rasziuski lauded the heroic efforts of Polish troops throughout the war, claiming that until these armies return to their homes and until Poland is "opened up to friendly nations and foreign press for unbiased study"-the real will of the Polish people cannot be expressed. "Poland today...