Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither side is likely to underestimate the difficulty involved in reaching an agreement. India feels that Kashmir is rightfully hers despite an overwhelming Moslem population--the Hindu ruler preferred to stay out of Mohammedan Pakistan. She claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin...
...When agreement was finally reached and rough changes had been made, it was then necessary to make the actual finished emendations and additions in this Technicolor picture via all the technical processes at the studio. Thereafter, it was also necessary to revise 475 prints scattered in exchanges throughout the U.S. I made a statement Dec. 5, announcing the changes, and Dec. 8 the Legion of Decency followed up by announcing that the picture had been put in the "B" ("objectionable in part") classification...
...problem was complicated. One of the chief complications was the buttoned-up pride & prejudice of the various armed services. To date, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been unable to produce an integrated strategy for World War III beyond an agreement "in principle." All hands agree on the primary role of air power. But Air Force and Navy brass continued to fight over their separate notions of how the available aircraft should be divvied up, who should use what kind of planes...
...Henry Ford's "only partner," Irish Inventor Harry Ferguson had done well. Ford produced Ferguson-designed tractors, and Harry Ferguson Inc. sold them, under an unwritten agreement based on "good faith and mutual confidence...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...