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...this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
...Communist functionary of Tours, was up for trial on a charge of obstructing a military train bearing arms for Indo-China. The party press hailed her as the "little angel" and the "delicate heroine of peace." Some of the comrades spoke of her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and doubtless imagined her triumphantly burned at the stake...
...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...
...faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
Last week Paula refused to make her lips pop like Ingrid's-She and the other dubbers had decided to hold their stars' tongues and go on strike for higher pay. "I have only the most grandiose notions of what Bergman got for playing Joan of Arc," said Paula, "but I do know that for being her French voice I got only $148.50." The dubbers' strike leader, Actor Georges Hubert, scoffed at reports that the strike was a Communist attempt to turn off the flow of U.S. pictures to France. "We have only the old-fashioned capitalist...