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Heavenly Days (RKO-Radio) is that dangerous film from whose political propaganda the U.S. once proposed to protect its troops (TIME, Aug. 21). Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington...
...whole classes will be pushed into the enemy camp. The first goal now is the defeat of Japan. Next, China's feudalism must be uprooted. For the present China's Communists believe that China is too low in the scale of economic evolution for socialism. They encourage capitalist enterprise as a comparatively progressive stage...
These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...
...Russian commanders in Botosani and Dorohoi knew little and cared less about civilian administration. Their job: to safeguard their Army, provide supplies and billets. Their chief desire: to get back to the front with their units. Their reaction: Communist contempt for "capitalist inefficiency and selfishness...
Before the Russians opened their Finnish drive (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), British wags joked that the Second Front was calling for the first front. A London cartoonist portrayed a capitalist in striped trousers and tail coat, scrawling a sign on a factory wall. The sign: "Open a front in the East at once...