Word: anti-fascist
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...Seventh Cross (M.G.M.). When anti-Fascist George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) escapes from Westhofen Concentration Camp, he has faith in nobody and in nothing. Only the most rudimentary instinct for self-preservation keeps him moving, as, sleepless and starved, his hand torn and infected, he creeps from culvert to tool shed to woodpile and at length to Mainz, his native city. One by one his comrades in escape are captured, their dying bodies taken back to hang on six crosses in the courtyard of the camp. The seventh cross waits for Heisler, and waits in vain. And little by little...
This story, which is not materially changed from Anna Seghers' best-selling novel of the same title (TIME, Sept. 28, 1942), had the makings of one of the finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably...
Burden of the Vanquished. Italians who understood the harsh terms of the armistice cried aloud. They complained that anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe...
...June 9 had left the onetime Fascist Marshal out in the cold. But they had reckoned without the wrath of Winston Churchill. Only a fortnight earlier the British Prime Minister had patted the Badoglio Government on the back, given it his "every confidence" (TIME, June 5). Now the anti-Fascist Italians stood at a frustrated impasse. Such intervention, they said darkly, would be the last disillusionment for Italy's democrats, would kindle antagonism against the Anglo-American liberators...
Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...