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...gradual and carefully shaded realignment of audience sympathies is the main moving force of the film. Opening impressions of the hero leave you with a generally uneasy feeling about him, while you might think that the crook and his girl are well along on the way to honesty. Consistently high-level supporting actors, superb camera work, and a good script are instrumental in the slow change. Where the film shows its honesty is in the final acceptance by the girl of the necessary double-crossing of her middle-aged admirer to throw police off the trail of her criminal lover...
Shinwell is chairman of the Labor Party, however, and Attlee did not leave him out in the cold entirely. He was made Secretary of State for War, which is not a Cabinet job and where high-level strategy and policy decisions will be made over his head. The red-tabbed generals are sure to dislike Manny, but last week this crack was going the rounds: "When he was at the Ministry of Fuel & Power, we had no fuel or power; now that he's at the War Office perhaps we'll have...
...coordinate domestic economic policy. Foreign economic policy was handled by a separate committee. Morrison failed at his job, in part because of ill health, in part because he had too many other things to do, in part because the setup itself left him in the splendid isolation of a high-level policy committee, where his executive abilities had little to take hold...
Officially, Cripps was described as minister without portfolio and chairman of the economic committee. This looked like a repetition of the organization that had failed to work under Morrison. But this time, high-level policy on both domestic and foreign economic affairs will be handled by a committee of which Prime Minister Attlee will be chairman. Cripps's new committee will be concerned with actually carrying out production plans...
...Except-SHAEF and its high-level politics...