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Later, when the Battle of the Atlantic is in a desperate stage, when the U.S. has gained even more time to arm, with more precious months added to those since Dunkirk, the President and the U.S. can face what Columnist Ray Clapper last week called "the bedrock question." Then the President could decide what he meant by the remark: "But convoys mean shooting and shooting means...
...Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists have got something that practice, competence and technical proficiency can never in themselves produce. They have the supreme gift of translating experienced emotion into works of art which give...
...triumphant over legal corruption. The Studio Theatre's revival has something of this quality, especially in the porcelain grace of the heroine, acted by little Dolly Haas, a German actress. But some of the actors lack her flair, with the result that the play provides mostly a rather precious kind of tedium...
Their leaders were made of softer stuff. To them liberty was less precious than that ephemeral thing called unity-the artificial union of diverse Slavic tribes into the post-World War I state called Yugoslavia. Although all the other artificially-created post-war States had disappeared or been dismembered in two short years-Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-Yugoslavia's leaders still hoped somehow to hold their own state together-and to keep their jobs. They were thinking not only of the tough, freedom-loving, German-hating Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Bosnians, but also of the Croats...
...Lupescu asked that her two Pekingese and two fox terriers be cared for by the Infanta Beatriz de Bourbon y Orleans, Carol's aunt. Meanwhile Seville police broke open such hand baggage as Carol and Magda had left behind, found mostly tinned foodstuffs which in Spain today are precious luxuries. Missing was any trace of the fat manuscript of memoirs upon which Carol Hohenzollern has been working for months...