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Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...humanity at all, but one long apologia for the better side of the Low character. Watching on the screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown to be old-fashioned and shortsighted, this is simply because he is the soul of gentlemanly honor...
...President, insofar as our brothers of France are concerned, they are now very grateful for all the assistance we have given them. I think we should ask them to let us have the two small islands off the coast of Newfoundland, the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are quite small, but we could use them to good advantage. ... We should have them appraised...
...mistakes readiness to report the Chinese Communist position- insofar as Chungking lets that position be known-for "sympathy" with China's Communists...
Brave Old World. Carl Becker (professor emeritus of history at Cornell) goes along with Joseph Jones insofar as his long-term hopes are concerned. But he cautions his readers to remember that things move slowly, that the world will not change radically with the defeat of Hitler and Japan. The new world will continue to be "nationalistic, for it is nationalist sentiment that is even now inspiring the British, the Chinese and the Russians. There will be a "balance of power," for "balance" is the antithesis of the monopoly of power which the Axis hoped to put over...