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...Army & Navy Register came out and stated bluntly: ". . . The French were supposed to take care of the ground operations, while the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was to handle those pertaining to the air. The sudden threat against the Channel ports and the island itself has compelled the British to hold the bulk of her air power in reserve to stem the tide of invasion. ..." When this was written, it was not known for sure that Germany would try to crush France before invading Great Britain...
Late in April Sir Richard Stafford Cripps arrived in London after a leisurely tour of the world-which included a sudden, secret, 9,000-mile flight from Chungking to Moscow and back. He went at once to the Chamberlain Government with a brief case full of electric dope which he wanted to sell. Russia, he said, was not too happy about its current arrangement of convenience with Germany. Great Britain had another chance to patch up at least a standoff agreement with the Soviet Union...
Behind this sudden concern for world events there are sound economic reasons. When the shooting began last fall in Europe, Hollywood uttered a piercing shriek over the decrease in its foreign revenues. Most of the belligerents forbade the export abroad of box-office receipts, but they went on piling up in the form of credits. Now Hitler is making it look as if these credits too might disappear. Result: the most frantic retrenchment in Hollywood history...
...first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo--it's worth hearing...
...with the start of each new war, turn to sentimental memories of his earlier soldiering days. Robert E. Sherwood's Waterloo Bridge brings back to mind those romantic war pictures of the late twenties, employing the same old tricks--the chance meeting in the air raid shelter, the sudden recall to the front, and the false report of the hero's death...