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Herbert Hoover had heard all this before, and he demurred in detail: "1) No food goes directly or indirectly to the Germans.- If the Germans furnish their part of the supplies, it will amount to more food values sent into Belgium than could possibly be taken out of Belgium or fed to their own Army. The effect is to reduce, not increase, German supplies...
...every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken the "silly, foolish dollar sign" off aid-to-Britain. Congress put the dollar sign back on in jig-time, and tried vainly to add on a few cent-marks...
...parties are satisfied that they are meant for each other. Douglas, playing the role of a normal man, tries to sneak one over on his wife and break up the plan. He tries in the only way he knows how, and his attempts, coupled with a few side plots furnish the humor of the picture. Apparently he knows how to break up a platonic friendship, for the picture ends as his bride slips a symbol of plenty of offspring in the form of an idol, into his bedroom. The story ends there--shucks...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...
...resist tyranny and aggression they man outposts of our freedom, making more difficult, more distant the threat to our shores," stated the telegram. "To permit them to fail for the want of weapons that we can supply or for the lack of resources that we can furnish, would be not only to disregard our own national interests but also to turn our backs on the support and encouragement of those freedoms that have been . . .the foundation of our republic...