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I wish I had more time to go through Life magazine this week. Like every week. Once again a there is lots to chew on, though there is hardly enough exposed flesh to get excited about.

A few things I noticed: The photo of the British commandos and sailors holding the Nazi flag on pg 34 might be the same one the Times had on March 11 or 12 that I posted. It’s hard to tell for sure since my copy was so bad. All classic movie fans from must check out the photo on pg 45. David O. Selznik, Joan Fontaine and Hitchcock at the Academy Awards. That pic is right next to one of a frowzy looking Unity Mitford. I thought she succumbed to the injury she sustained in Germany. I am concerned to see the spread on “Citizen Kane.” I am a over a month beyond this date in my news gathering and I haven’t come across a review of that movie yet. I hope I didn’t miss it.

Did anyone read Baldwin’s piece on the Balkans today? It is an interesting mix of sound analysis and missing the boat. He makes the British effort in Greece sound like a reasonable, though dangerous, course for them. He explains the importance of Turkey in the Middle Eastern picture in a way I haven’t really considered since the possible scenario he painted didn’t come to be. Yet he missed the gorilla in the living room. Or the Bear, I should say. As he puts it, “The German leaders know that the campaign of Britain is the decisive campaign . . .”

I don’t think the German leaders know any such thing. For them this is all about protecting their flank for the invasion of the U.S.S.R.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting to read the analysis of a well-informed writer at this point on the road to Barbarossa.

I did some looking and found articles by Bosley Crowther on May 2nd and May 4th. All I can pull up without subscribing is the Headline and the first paragraph so I can't really tell which one is a serious review.

I'm going to go back now and read the Baldwin article. I hadn't gotten to that yet. I can say I finished the LIFE though and it is relatively porn free this time.

That is very interesting. Clearly he is not even anticipating a German attack on the Soviet Union.

He mentions the gamble the Germans are taking since many resources they need for the war effort come from the Balkans. He couldn’t be more right.

50% of its cereal and livestock, 45% of its bauxite, 90% of its tin, 40% of its lead, and 10% of its copper all come from that region. Then of course we have the Rumanian oil.

Look at page 48 again. Joan Blondell may have her clothes on in that pose, but see what the sculptor has done.

And what all is going on on 58-60?

YIKES. Just saw pages 106-108.

And ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ on page 119