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Compared with what was coming, the opening shots were almost idyllic. Beside savagely marching, stiffly saluting Nazis, Fascists, Reds, the blotchy, jerky old jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic Tsar looked like kindly, slightly fuddled grandfathers. Beside the Communazi conquerors of Poland and the Moscow pact-makers (shown first as outlaws, later as dictators over a combined 240 millions of lives) the Versailles Treaty-makers (Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando) looked unworldly and Utopian...
...still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting over a few of the bleakest square miles in the world seemed mutually futile. The truce was a truce, not a military alliance. If a military alliance did eventually arise, then the world...
...over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that the dictatorships are arranged in one neat pile...
...brokers' activities-regulation designed to insure customer safety, or 2) by the establishment of brokerage banks, you can, as far as this subject of customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from 8,000 to 12,000 lbs. per cow.) Thus while Author Prentice is personally one of the least likely U. S. citizens...
Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came...