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Zola becomes conscious of the Dreyfus case when the Captain's wife (Gale Sondergaard) begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees...
...sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain...
...full on the mouth. Also back in Moscow last week from their Coronation trip to England were U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers daily (TIME, June 28 et ante), life went on at Moscow in most of its accustomed grooves. The story about What Ails Russia was so big that most correspondents...
...Towne and a small party set off to find the Northwest Passage for him, Rogers had to stay fuming in Michilimackinac. When the expedition came to grief, barely managed to get back safely, Langdon found Rogers a prisoner in irons; his enemies had had him arrested on charges of treason and malfeasance. But Langdon's sympathy for his chief vanished when he discovered why Ann was no longer there. He left Rogers to the descending discords of his fate, went in search of Ann. Their marriage, his career in London and his return to America during the Revolution, bring...
Russia's current tidal wave of treason charges, summary arrests and sudden death to even big Bolsheviks (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), surged up last week for the first time high enough to overwhelm even a president of a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...