Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many war pictures have dwelt, for purposes of irony, on the small gallantries of modern armed conflict. Grand Illusion does the same thing, but for a different reason. This time the monstrous irony is war itself rather than the lie de Boeldieu tells to save his friends, the flower that von Rauffenstein places on de Boeldieu's chest after shooting him through the stomach. For the heroics of ordinary war pictures, Grand Illusion substitutes a pastoral interlude when Marechal and Rosenthal try to escape to Switzerland, and a German peasant woman shelters them on her lonely farm. The pastoral...
From the impending conflict in Europe our United States have remained aloof. President Roosevelt and Mr. Hull have said nothing that more than point the direction of our sympathies. Their hands, unfortunately, are tied by the 1936 Neutrality Act. But there is no doubt among the foreign leaders that America, with its natural bigness, could avoid a world war by stepping into the present crisis and arbitrating. If war comes, certainly the American stand will determine its outcome. Why not speak now and show the enemy what must be the result if they begin war? Pressure for the repeal...
...plot, that their eccentric characters were freaks rather than human beings. Translation from the stage to cinema sometimes has extraordinary results. In this case, the result is spectacular proof that the comic exterior of You Can't Take It With You concealed not merely plot but superb dramatic conflict, and that its characters, far from being freaks, were really human beings drawn on the heroic scale. Brilliantly explored by Writer Robert Riskin, Director Frank Capra and the season's most astutely chosen cast, these unforeseen potentialities make the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1937 into what is easily...
...Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make a speech at Lanark, Scotland. There he strongly reaffirmed Neville Chamberlain's own declaration of last March that Britain might find herself drawn into any war breaking out in Eastern Europe. "The beginning of a conflict is like the beginning of a fire in a high wind," said Sir John, weighing England's words but not mincing them. "It may be limited at the start, but who can say how far it would spread or how much destruction it would do or how many...
...Fascists thought that by muzzling Catholic Action they had washed up ''any conflict or dissension between State and Church"-Mussolini's spokesman Virginio Gayda immediately so declared-they were sadly mistaken. On Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...