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...Brighter Future. Today few post war planners have picked up this prewar thread. Many of them figure that since Hitler has tried to unify Europe by force, any kind of unification must be wrong. But FORTUNE warns that if the old European state system is revived, Europe, once the center of Christian culture and world power, is "in danger of receding into its own glorious past." FORTUNE thinks the U.S. should wish Europe a brighter future, figures that European unification would 1) uphold Christendom; 2) eliminate some causes of war and thus prolong peace. The article shows how this unification...
Once more, as during the days of Vichy appeasement, U.S. editorialists dragged out the simile of the long, thin thread which soon must snap. Wrote New York Times Managing Editor Edwin L. James: ". . . If he defies Washington, there will be created a situation which, to repeat, could scarcely be allowed to continue...
Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Virginia Fields, this pie boasts a plot that is serewy with a left hand thread. Goddard is a stranded gal who works in a shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot...
...wreckage, Finland is trying to save the tenuous thread of relations with its old and powerful friend, the U.S. The Finns hope that the end of their long road of misery will at least find Nazi troops gone and no Russian troops replacing them...
There was no attempt to discredit the conference's real contribution in unifying Anglo-U.S. plans to bring Hitler's fortress of Europe tumbling down about German ears. But something was missing. The overture to the grand invasion of Europe held no thread of melody for the common man to whistle at his work...