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...denunciations of Fuhrer Hitler. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain officially and publicly buried his appease-the-dictators policy and announced that henceforth what happened in southeastern Europe was decidedly Britain's business. The British Cabinet met in two special sessions, and King George hurried to London from a week-end in the country. A faction led by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was said to feel that Dictator Hitler could not be stopped this side of Turkey, that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece must inevitably be his if he wanted them. But Lord Halifax stood...
Moreover, a hunter for peace might easily have found a few faint signs of improvement on the international horizon last week. The week-end trouble in Czechoslovakia (see p. 22) was not likely to dampen determined British optimism and Britain was more than likely not to do any more than protest against another partition of the country. The British low-down on Germany last week was that the Nazis were having such a tough time with economic problems that they could scarcely plan an "adventure" soon. Similarly...
...Darling Daughter (Warner Bros.) is an adaptation of Mark Reed's mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing play about a humorless young couple who enjoy an earnest week-end together before getting married. Three weeks ago the New York State Board of Censors banned the movie. Last week, the Board of Regents rescinded the ban and Warner Bros., eager to capitalize on the publicity, hurried it simultaneously into Manhattan's Strand and Globe Theatres. Critics and audiences found it mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing...
...conjunction with the Second Annual Convention of the New England American Student Union to be held at M.I.T. this week-end, a dance will be held in Walker Memorial Hall, M.I.T. this Saturday night at eight o'clock...
...John's brother, found he couldn't get down that day because he had to take an entrance exam for Harvard. Cynthia and her mother promptly slated the wedding for the twenty-seventh. John threw a fit, because it seems that the Harvard-Yale boat races are that week-end, and he's never missed once since his graduation...