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...Inside the Maginot Line," the latest issue of the March of Time, which opens at the University tomorrow, is a comprehensive and intelligent piece of reporting. Although the audience expects to see nothing but the underground forts which Minister of War Andre Maginot began in 1928, exclusive interior shots--of mess halls, shower rooms, gun turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures...
...weeks armed Arab rebels, under German-trained General Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed, former Turkish-Arab commander, have filtered into Jerusalem, some entering secretly through underground passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...
...began her reconquest of Palestine. With 3,000 soldiers standing by at nearby Gethsemane, Bethlehem and around Jerusalem, Black Watch Coldstream Guards and Royal Northumberland Fusiliers scaled the old Roman walls, marched in through the Biblical Dung and Zion Gates, began to clean up the Old City's underground labyrinths...
Ever since Manhattan became Bagdad-on-the-Subway 34 years ago, lusty Chicago has toyed with the idea of an underground of its own. But despite years of fantastic traffic messes, civic pounding, editorial urging and earnest planning, Chicago is still the biggest city in the world without a passenger subway...
...Valley is a good pioneer story. Author Miller weakens it by an undramatic style and too many devices of romantic pioneer fiction, but she follows an authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until the land was producing and then...