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Last week the "Walrus of Warsaw,' shrewd and sturdy old Marshal Josef Pilsudski, became the first of Europe's crop of post-War dictators to confer full and sweeping powers on his puppet...
...give sentiment and magic a freer hand, Author Williamson puts his tale in rural Germany. Fraulein Emma, a middle-aged spinster, lives alone in her isolated cottage, with her canary, cat and dog. Years ago her Lover Josef left her practically at the altar; her whole life has become one mnemonic system to keep his memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand...
Present as the only friend of the accused was Poland's towering knobby-knuckled Foreign Minister Josef Beck who steered Poland into her ten-year non-aggression pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week the German Press was so hopeful that Poland would deadlock the Council that even when Nazis in the Polish Corridor were mobbed and beaten by irate Poles no newspaper in Germany was allowed to print the fact. At Geneva cool Colonel Beck at the last minute cast Poland's vote with that of all Council members except abstaining Denmark to approve...
...even Adolf Hitler could not make his paper boom, German journalism was close to the rocks. Chiefly to blame, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, who censors and blights the Fatherland's news, last week berated German editors because "the published word no longer has its former effect. The reader has become a mule. . . . There has now reappeared the old 'vocal newspaper,' the passing of news from mouth to mouth. The reader is not responsible: the newspapers are responsible! They are losing ground because they satisfy only 40% of the readers' curiosity instead...
...Reynolds and Shapiro (B) defeated Short and Beffie (D), 6-4, 6-2; Mazer (B) defeated Humstone (E), 6-1, 6-2; Elkin (B) defeated Banner (E), 6-1, 6-0; Greenblatt (B) defeated Cummings (E), 6-4, 6-2; Quinn (D) defeated Homonoff (B), 9-7, 8-6; Josef (D) defeated Skinner...