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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the best illustration of what would happen if Chiang invaded is shown by the desertions from his Nationalist army. Between fifty and seventy percent of the Communist army in Korea consists of former Nationalist soldiers. Demoralized by the Generalissimo's corrupt staff, these soldiers deserted to the Reds where their American weapons were welcome. There is no reason to believe that the Nationalist army now based in Formosa would act any differently when it reached the mainland again and encountered overwhelming Communist forces...
...screen adaptation has one addition--an amusing Washington travelogue. For the most part the dialogue changes are small, but anyone who knows the play well will find them interesting. For instance, the corrupt Senator of the Broadway version has become a corrupt Congressman. Paul Verrall used to work for the New Republic, but that isn't mentioned any more. Billie's reference to a toilet is guarded; and more inexplicably, she no longer hums "Anything Goes" in the card-playing scene...
...passes each month a bill appropriating a twelfth of the budget. Obviously, even efficient civil servants have no scope to plan and operate on that basis. A government commission recently issued a report dividing prominent officials into three classes: 1) honest and efficient, 2) honest but unnecessary, and 3) corrupt or unworthy...
...official party line was laid down in the Daily Worker by Harry Pollitt, secretary general of Britain's Communist Party: "The government and the Tories are making the biggest mistake of their lives if they think they are going to bribe and corrupt the miners ... to produce more coal for war against the Soviet Union...
Certainly Playwright Ibsen stood alone in An Enemy of the People, lashing out in all directions at every class and kind: at the moneybags for being corrupt, at the moderates for being corruptible, at the liberals for being fainthearted, at the mob for being brute-minded. As protest, An Enemy is frequently valid, though as playwriting it is too pat and contrived: the play is less interesting for its social protest than for its individualist scorn...