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POLAND, Rumania, Greece and Turkey are all members of the Peace. Front. But the most

London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By Antal Dorati The Dancing Years-livor Novello's Latest Drury Lane Success) With: Mary Ellis-Ivor Novello-Olive Gilbert and Roma Beaumont important country of all, Russia,

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Another and subsequent excuse was that neither Poland nor Rumanin wished to have Russian help.

However true these excuses might have been two months ago they no longer hold to-day. The shadow has been steadily moving along the dial, and it is inconceivable that either Poland for Rumania would spurn the jonly direct succour they can receive in the event of aggres- sion,

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It has also been argued that we must not unduly offend Italy, Spain or Portugal. exclude Russia from the Peace Front in the hope of winning over, or neutralising, Mussolini or France is indeed ridiculous.

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INSIDE

STORY

by F. G. H. Salusbury

"W

HETHER Holly- wood intends to or not, the movies

on

of John Kieran on American sport; of Arthur Krock on high politics in Washington. But a choice must be

I concentrate made, and are painting our

Ferdinand Kulm and F. Raymond picture for posterity. It won't

Daniell. be too accurate a portrait. We are going to be prettifed and silined."

That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harrap. 85. Gd.) in which thirteen men with thirteen typewriters have set out to knock the Hollywood altitude endways.

The men are all correspondents of the "New York Times "-a newspaper which one of thein aedately describes as the best t the, world-and they all write for dear te, because, as every re- porter knows, while there's te there's hope.

And these men have hope for us. That

Is the thing which emerges from this collection of world-wide stories, as cheerfully as a cork from a bottle.

The cork may hit us in the eye as it pops out-Britaanla gets lovely black eye in the chapter called "The British Way"-but the draught which follows is cer- tainly Invigorating.

Kuhn is the London corre- the "New York spondent of Times. He writes about The British Way." He writes sympa- thetically. ile understands us, And he drags skeletons out of our na tional cupboard and makes them dance with clacking bones. The essence of Kuhn is the decline of British democracy.

DANIELL is a reporter in the United States. He writes about the Ameri- can Way under the title of "The Land of the Free." He writes as sympathetically as Kuhn. Hu, too, They drags out his skeletons. danice, as beßts American, skele- tons. to a brisker measure-what strikes me as a more tunatle one. The essence of Daniell is the de- cline of American democracy.

This seems important. I do not or Daniell suppose either Kuhn looked over each other's shoulders ns they pounded away on their

both

typewriters, but Bee Fascism

"Remember ap peasement?” Mr. Chamberlain with his Munich "pact" (above).— Schuschnigg(right) his "God protect Austria!" | Sacco and Vanzetti (below) "u mon- strous miscarriage of justice."

and

tin Chamberlain." "Joseph writes, told the propertied classes - that social legislation was the ransem they must pay in exchange for the security and wealth they enjoyed."

And Disraeli, long ago, made the same point. The "haves" must pay for their possesalens and privileges.

in some form as the common fate I HOPE that historians for us and the Americans, unless

Thus, by knowing what to sur- will not overlook this we pull ourselves together.

IC- Britain book-which shows, in-

render. Kuhn sees Kuhn makes his best point

after the cidentally, that reporters are head- when he refuses to see the British

establishing herself He sees it as two

strengthening the Grent War, and-typewriters above novelists nation whole,

bonds of Empire by apparently loosening them with the Statute of Westminster, and saving her people from the American abysses of social disorganisation.

as writers-for it recks with the classes. The upper class has re- spirit of the age: diall

disillusionment tained its hold, ils direction of everywhere, no

the affairs, by a snake-like subtlety

錢 dishonest subtleness of mind, as

falih

present, hope only for the future.

The Thirteen Disillusionists ride it strikes Kuhn--which will not high and wide and low.

work for ever.

Up to the Era of Rape, which

O. E. R. Gedyo goes through Centrai

Europe. and Eastern

saw the successive disasters of What babble of devilishly lotic Manchuria. Abyssinia, Austria and the British policy

noises overwhelmed him at lasti zece non-essen-

And above it all he magnifics two of voices-Schuschnige making his tials, while keeping the essentials.

Austrian worked pretty well. final broadcast to the

trial

It failed in this era because people, his words climbing pas-

statesmen mistook the sionately to "God protect Aus- British

essentials in international affairs. more im- And Benes, President of Czecho- They thought it was Slovakin, saying in 1937. Let the portant to have peace at almost cares of Central Europe slip quite any price you remember Appease- to co-operate in casily off your shoulders, my puor ment?-than worried friend.

of will checking the disease Nothing

aggression. In home affairs, this policy of happen..

And then came 1938. The tragedy keeping the substance by sur- goes too deep even for jeers, rendering the shadow, has served -or-thals

I wish I had space to describe the upper class excellently.The- the activities of all the Thirteen- substance, of course, is power, say, of Louis Stark, who believes privilege, the rule-shall one say? that the Bacco-Vanzetti case was a of the Old School Tle. monstrous miscarriage of justice;

The "Ideal Squire" Is Censured As for Portugal, she is a fellow-T ORD KENYON, 21-years-old

LKENTON, the member with Russia in

ton, Whitchurch, Shropshire, League of Nations, and if they heard a coroner's jury recently cannot co-operate in resisting describe as "careless" his driv- aggression it is time to revise ing of a car which killed a 13- our ideas on what membership years-old schoolboy.

of that almost defunct organisa- tion involves.

The inquest, at Hinckley, Leices- on Donald Arthur tershire, was Woodley, of Leicester Grangecollage, Watling-street, Hinckley, who died

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times, returned a verdict of Acci- defen-dental Death, and added that in their opinion there had been carelessness on the part of Lord Kenyon.

The coroner and he did not think the negligence amounted to criminal negligence, but he thought Lord Ken- yon was driving at more than 30 m.p.h.

the Kremlin secks an Anglo-car while cycling. Franco-Russian military against aggression-a sive alliance. That being so, why does not Britain grasp the offer. It is to our advantage as much as Russia's, and no single

Lord Kenyon, who owns 10,000 step, except the whole-hearted

of the United acres in Shropshire and on his estate, co-operation

Peal Fall, Bolton, Lancashire, is Ho suc- States, could do so much to called the "Ideal squire."

ceeded hla father, a former Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire and Lord- in-Waiting to three Sovereigns, in 1027. He and his twin sister, the Hon. Myilda Tyrell-Kenyon, came of age lost September.

ensure peace.

Fire Jinx Not Thwarted

The argument that we should not enter into such an alliance for fear of giving point to the Nazi propaganda about encircle- water. ment will not hold Whatever sort of agreement is reached with Russia, and even Mr. Chamberlain wants some PICHER, Okla, (UP)," guess I sort of an agreement-the cry Just should have let the stuff burn,"

sald Earl Block, Ila house of encirclement will be raised. Black saved most of his furniture and This being so, we may as well personal effects at risk of his life, He suffered minor burns. Then, a get, in the form of an alliance, week later, after he had transferred the maximum protection for our-hals possessions to his mother-in-law's selves and give the maximum nome. a fire destroyed that dwelling. Nothing was saved from the second delerrent to Hitler.

fire.

adre.

THE shadow, so far as the upper class is con- cerned, consists of the social benefits such as that mag- nificent body of insurance laws (1 Kuhn), unemployment. quoto health, and old nge, which have kept their cfectiveness to this day and preserved Britain from the worst depression.

times.

KUHN also sees Britain as a democracy a hun- dred years betdnd the He sees an "appulling guli of class distinctions which, after hundreds of years, still separates one section of the people frum another."

'Every other democracy nowa-

days,* 11

he says. "18 wise enough to

recruit its brain-power and leader- ship, in politics and business. from the whole nation: Great Britain is content to recrult hers from the privileged three per cent. who have been educated in the so-

blic schools'

the odds called ' public

of an elementary-school boy-that is to say, a poor boy getting into one of the reserved scats' of In England are a thousand to one." And that is why. says Kuhn, our serpentine suppleness will not work for ever. The challenge facing us is more desperate, than the depression of 1931 or the un- rest of the post-war years, Will Great Britain meet it by breaking down vicious class-barriers so that she can get the best out of all her people when the trouble comes?

"Or will she imitate the totali- tartan States by shedding her liberty, her tolerance, her integ

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

I have to keep the "I won't be needin' you till autumn, Lom!

place picturesque for tourists and them artist follors!”

rity little bit here, a little there -so that her Conservative rulers can stay in power? I wish I felt sure that she would choose the democratic.way."

So much for Kuhn, an American looking

What at Britain.

of Daniell, an American, looking at America?

A large part of his chapter is devoted to that fantastic figure of tyranny, Husy Long, Governor of Louisiana, who was assassinated by Dr. Welas.

Dantell thinks that "the tide of Fasciat philosophy embodied in the organisations founded by Huey Long, Townsend and Coughlin may have evaporated to a great extent under the sun of Roosevelt's administration, with its principle of a new deal in social reforms.

"But I do

I do know from my travels to all parts of these United States that the mental attitude on which Fasciam feeds exists here just as It does in Germany and Italy. while the seeds of Marxism foll upon barren soil,"

Kuhn may say that Britain's working people compare unfav-

in physical or intellectual resources with the masses of many poorer and weaker lands, but Daniell comforts us for that with his description of the bowhiskered Kentucky farmer who firmly be- Reved that Negroes were only half. human.

His authority, he said,-was-the- Bible. There were no women in the land of Nod, whither Cain Led, but Cain had issue. Therefore Cain must have married a baboon, and Negroes were the result of this unnatural union,

with

as

HOLLYWOOD, which I began this review, emerges frankly mad. "By its marvellously sustained detachment from con- temporary ille," writes Frank Nugent, it has become the eighth and ninth wonders of the world. It is all things to all men, and all things and Robert Taylor to most women."

There is enough class distinction there to give Kuhn a seizure- " And I suppose," said Nugent. aflor

a dose of social nieetles, 'that the producers speak only to God?

'Oh, noi" was a Press agent's. reply, "some of them are democratic."

vers

This is a good book, a straight book. Readers have front seats. They can even see the Thirteen- Dislilusionista pounding away on their typewriters with tears in their eyes.

Wife Flies to Injured Film Studio Chief

Copt the Hon. Richard Norton, executive director of the Denham Film Studios, was recently ceriously Injured in a road crash in Somerset.

His wife flew to Yeovil with two Harley-street specialists directly the hcord of

accident Another Harley-sircet specialist flow there (later.

the

Capt. Norton is the son of Lord Grantley.

Four other people in the car-Miss Liane Lindon, 10-years-old Swediair actress, her friend, Miss Zoo Rogers, Dr. A. Galperson, and the chauffeur, Mr. C. F. Bell-were also injured.

Mirs Lindon Injured her arm and foot, but was able to return to Lon- Idon later.