Mr, Lowell Thomas now has world-wide reputation for his effective accompaniments to the newsreel Dietures thrown upon the cinema screen. A graduate of Princeton, he layed on active part as one of the eye-witnesses™ in' the Great" Wai gaining special knowledge of Palestine, "Arabia, including the Hedjaz. nation hen etaguarers of Cav yan epic, naturally fitted in with his record and present occupation, but it had a peculiar appropriateness in that he was the first man to take a film of the North-West Frontier of India. Wis acquaintance with the British forces in Arabia was directly respon sible for the mission which the Gov-cerned in this attack an Calve Sotelo, they put them tu prison, and whi General Franco's" revolt "began they were. about' to. bring them for trial Iprrerur, egal "procaine Mr, Baker also points out that for ome time before the outbreak certain Fascist elements in the Army were deliberately removing their opponents "by assassination, Six cofflcers—one of them Mr, Baker's personal friend—ot a certain service in the Army had declared themselves openly as partisans of the Republicans: three of them had been murdered by Fascist before the out break began, Mr, jaker denies that the Agrarians have joined the insurgents and he notes the strong support given to the Govern leading Spanish intellectual was, of course, writing nearly a month ago. The cables seem suggest that the loyalists have come under the domination of the extreme Communist elements and" that. the Sintelleetuals—even Senor Azana him= selt—may "not be able to" control events. In any ease, Spain is terribly caught in the coil of bloodthirstiness in which revenge, with all its ghastly technique of reprisals and. summary executions, so gruesomely trades. On Mr. Baker's view of the Government's position, an American, ME. Arthur P. Rees who describes' him= self as, ko Mr. Baker, an "advanced Liberal," has comment to make. Mr.
Rees, recently returned from Barce-Jona, asserts that Russian Communists' have been organizing "the administration there and that so long. asa year ago it was the standard Joke at Bilbao that the Russian agents were the only people to have work ernment of India entrusted to him during the Waziristan Campaign of 1919-1923. Mr, Thomas startled the atmosphere of Simla with his vivid account of the Frontier scenes on his Him, but Simla like other places, has amt much since then regarding. the Fequirements of film narration. Tt Is difficult to imagine anyone" doing beter justice to the Everest Flight than Mr. Thomas. It now appears that his own Government is just alive as other people to his deftly Dersuasive methods. and from spirit tually soaring with Colonel Blacker's monocle over the pinnacle of plumed Everest, he is to descend to earth in the United States Department of Commerce for the discussion of the merits of American commodities over 8 cup of coffee. If Mr. Thomas as eloquent on coffee as on the beverages of India, the Department will have Feason to congratulate itself.
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