Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were also gloating over two "criminals" last week. They were Giuseppe Togliatti, brother of Italy's No. 1 Communist, Palmiro Togliatti, and Mario Badoglio, son of Marshal Badoglio. The Germans threatened to kill them (and 38 others) in reprisal for the execution of Pietro Caruso, Rome's Fascist police chief (see below...
...Abolish all Fascist organizations, free all antiFascists, intern all Axis nationals, restore in good order all property seized from Allied nationals...
From the U.S. last week came another blast by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Argentina, he said, was the center of fascist activities in this hemisphere...
...Seventh Cross (M.G.M.). When anti-Fascist George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) escapes from Westhofen Concentration Camp, he has faith in nobody and in nothing. Only the most rudimentary instinct for self-preservation keeps him moving, as, sleepless and starved, his hand torn and infected, he creeps from culvert to tool shed to woodpile and at length to Mainz, his native city. One by one his comrades in escape are captured, their dying bodies taken back to hang on six crosses in the courtyard of the camp. The seventh cross waits for Heisler, and waits in vain. And little by little...
This story, which is not materially changed from Anna Seghers' best-selling novel of the same title (TIME, Sept. 28, 1942), had the makings of one of the finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably...