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...major address from Moscow: "A third World War would mean the destruction of world civilization." To the Russians this was news. For years, they have been told by their leaders, in the style set by Joseph Stalin and Georgy Malenkov himself, that a new war would destroy the capitalist system, not the Communist world. They have been kept in ignorance of the horrors and the dangers of atomic warfare...
...Finance Minister Fritz Shäffer announced sweeping tax reductions that will enable Germans themselves to buy more of the Volkswagen, cameras and other good things that their factories are exporting to every nook & cranny of the Western world. A staunch free-enterpriser, Shäffer believes that a capitalist economy should be kind to capitalists. His tax cuts especially gave relief to 1) heavy industry (corporation taxes were reduced from 60% to 45%*) and 2) West Germany's crop of postwar millionaires (taxes on incomes over $600,000 a year were slashed from a maximum...
Twice, the Grimeses went to Germany to get the children, but Mrs. Grimes's father, an oldtime Communist and smalltown Red official named Paul Schroeder, would not surrender the girls to "capitalist America." "The future belongs to Communism," insisted Schroeder. "Why don't you stay here...
...first surprise: a spectacular but somewhat deceptive shift to the left. When a U.S. soldier is kidnaped, his father (Broderick Crawford), a rampant capitalist with high connections in Washington, makes a stratoline for Berlin to "get some action" out of the military-government bureaucrats stationed there. For a little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped...
While the shock of his left feint is taking hold, Johnson suddenly sends his plot around right end. The capitalist turns out to have a heart after all (though it does not begin to beat until he sees a woman who reminds him of his wife attempt suicide with strychnine rather than face a Russian interrogation), and the Russians are vigorously presented as heels. Johnson's political gambit is fairly daring to have been executed in Hollywood, 1953; and it may serve, if the picture is a box-office success, to remind moviemakers that there is still...