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...people on this island are fanatics," exclaimed 24-year-old Lucino Balili, who was saying farewell to Camiguin. "This is not God's punishment. It is the work of the devil himself...
These minds, Niebuhr continued, are likely to accept some "devil theory"; under Communism all the problems come from abuses by property-owners, and those without possessions are men of virtue...
...Bottle Party, a bachelor, browsing through an old curiosity shop, finds a bottle in which a jinni is stoppered. He buys it, and makes the poor devil work day & night to find him women. Yet the jinni somehow finds time to fall in love with his master's favorite, The Most Beautiful Girl in the Whole World. Puzzled by his mistress's indifference, the bachelor pops himself into the bottle where he keeps her to see if she has a lover there. While he is investigating, the jinni thumbs the cork back in, and takes over where...
Ironically enough, Mr. Flynn uses the Marxian devil theory of history to make his point. Because the Communists won out in China he assumes that someone in Washington must be guilty of conspiracy and treason. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes Devil Number One and is pictured as both a raging-power-crazy-world-dictator and a senile piece of flotsam at the same time. Devil Number Two includes the N.Y. Times, Herald Tribune, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, and Saturday Evening Post and assorted "Internationalists." Mr. Flynn really believes that these Devils drugged the American Mind into unconsciousness while they wrapped up Asia...
...Tall Men (Columbia), a tall adventure tale of the French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...