Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other picture, "The Night of January the 16th," is a first-rate murder-adventure story about a girl (Ellen Drew) who comes dangerously near being convicted of a murder which, needless to say, she didn't commit. Robert Preston, who manages to clear her of the charge, is his usual dashing self. Included in the plot are many amusing situations, and the picture, unlike "Bahama Passage," moves along at a good rate. On the whole, it's by far the better...
...Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money to the boys of his old division...
...spread of the war made it harder than ever for Vichyfrance to decide how far to commit itself to Germany's world ambitions. On the one hand were signs that Vichy might soon join the Axis...
...Sniffed Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Vere Evatt: "The invitation to Japan to invade us is nothing short of an invitation to Japan to commit national suicide...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...