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Without even brushing his hands, Mr. Welles then produced a balloon from his pocket-a trial balloon for a new (and New Deal) League of Nations after the war. Said he: "At the end of the last war, a great President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...
There is a sense of the sanctity of the British home in the way a housewife holds the military at bay while remarking incredulously to her husband inside: "Here's a man wants to put a balloon in the back yard." And there is a suspicion of an ancient animosity in a Scottish soldier's reply to the hungry query of his newly-arrived comrades from London: "No. No haggis. They're breedin...
work. The camera communicates their state of mind in some of Major Barbara's unhappy sequences. It took 17 days to make a single shot of London's embattled Tower Bridge, and the completed sequence shows part of London's balloon barrage hovering in the sky. Once, when the company returned to complete a sequence begun on a street in London's East End, the houses had disappeared...
...what premises to be the largest and most successful Jubilee ever held at Harvard, about 400 Freshmen and their dates will invade the balloon-decked Union tonight to climax a weekend of Freshman festivities which, in addition to the big dance, will include an informal dance, baseball game, and crew races on Saturday...