Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the president of the Youth Congress showed up in the Senate committee room on Saturday morning to present a "brief" in opposition to the Lease-Lend bill, he was escorted to the door before he could utter more than a half sentence. Why the action was taken was left unexplained by Senator George, the head of the Committee. When other members of the Youth Congress present at the hearing applauded their president's departing squawks, they were threatened with a similar fate, and walked out on their own accord. When Senator Clark stood up for their right to peaceful...
...been presented by an organization which did not represent a democratic process in action, the incident would have been unfortunate. It was doubly unfortunate in that McMichael represented a view that had been decided on by a majority of the Youth delegation in an orderly election. Although the "opposition brief" was eventually accepted by the Senate Committee and made a part of its records, the ejection of the Youth Congress representative is a disgraceful travesty on the democratic spirit which is supposed to prevail at the open hearings on the Lend-Lease bill...
...getting lurid-was the Greenwich (Conn.) Time (circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning Mrs. Strubing's name...
Less sensational cases have been taken up by papers from coast to coast. Although press services carried brief accounts (except to the South), many newspapers printed nothing. And only one Southern paper asked for the story...
Moving from Austria to Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland and France, So Ends Our Night is a story of the sad flight of the democrats from one brief sanctuary to another as Hitlerism rolled across Europe. When Josef Steiner (Fredric March), a former officer in the German Army, meets young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford), they are under arrest in Vienna, about to be put over the border into Czecho-Slovakia. Without passports, they have no civil rights, can be deported at any time. Without labor permits, they cannot legally earn a living...