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...faint roar of many voices broke in on his thoughts. His watch!--Christo et Ecclesiae -- 2:10 "Where did I put those pennants...
Delegates proceeded to examine problems from the fifth column to foreign trade, heard themselves scolded for cynicism and "disgusted detachment" by Speakers Neilson, MacLeish, et al., skirmished with a few members of the American Student Union and American Youth Congress who had gone to bore from within. By week's end the delegates had succeeded in squelching these noisy spokesmen, went off to their colleges steamed up to start forums on world problems...
Notable items of the film are news-reels of World War I and selections from the German film, "Baptism of Fire," with Which Nazis subdued any "senseless opposition" among the bigwigs of Norway, Denmark, et al. When used in America, however, "Baptism of Fire" is about as effective a piece of propaganda as the mission of Sir George Paish to this country last month...
...quiet on the continent of Africa last week. Only important development in the Kenya campaign was the withdrawal of British troops from Buna, at the mouth of the Moyale salient occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...