Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morals painlessly. Today they are seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
...commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot let Frieda drown even as the waters swirl over her head for she is not so much a German as a human being...
Baldwin charged that in the past year or two "Had Enough?" forces have buttressed conservative elements and made it increasingly difficult to fight for human liberties. He decried the Taft-Hartley Law, the method of administering loyalty checks, and activities of the un-American Activities Committeee as the most depressing aspects of this trend...
Declaring that the report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights is a landmark in the battle for civil liberties, Baldwin noted that similar sentiments supporting human equalities are embodied in the UN charter. He voiced his belief that foreign critics of American failures in the sphere of human freedoms ". . . are, in large measure, right...
Baldwin stated, "Many do not think that you can reconcile capitalism and democracy--and there is a lot to be said on their side." He added that democratic-socialism may well be the bulwark of human liberties and should Britain's experiment fail, chances of democracy in the world would be greatly dimmed...