Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months there had been no cheaper, easier or surer way of entering the U.S. than just following the path of love & marriage. If an American G.I. married a foreigner the U.S. not only admitted her, but paid her passage as well. The wives of ex-G.I.s were also welcome. So were their fiancées-although, according to law, unmarried girls were hustled right back home if they didn't get their men to the altar in go days...
...scheme that cast a fine pink glow over the grim, grey postwar world. Foreign women who were genuinely in love with U.S. soldiers were assured a wonderful wedding gift, foreign adventuresses were so inspired that whole battalions of G.I.s came to rank themselves with Casanova and Don Juan. In all by December an estimated 112,000 brides, husbands and children had come from overseas to share the good life in Boston, Paducah, and Walla Walla, Wash...
...form of a diary kept by a Swiss pastor. In it the reader was allowed to see what went on around the Pastor as well as what went on in his mind. The reader saw him take the blind girl into his family, saw him slowly grow to love her, and saw the suffering this love caused among his family. The reader could see this as well as the almost inevitable climax, but the Pastor could see neither. This gave the tale a special horror: there you (the reader) were, there he stood, and over there is family...
This reader-relationship with the pastor has, of course, been lost in the film version. The camera and not the Pastor now tells the story. Some of the subtlety is lost when in order to reveal the wife's knowledge of her husband's love for the girl, she must peek in through a window and see them together...
...helplessness make her a natural object for protection. The Pastor of M. Blanchar is a man who acts as his faith (the Good Sheperd) and his natural inclination lead him. He presents the Pastor as postponing the girl's cure not solely because it will mean losing her love, but because she has given him spiritual (and vocational) satisfaction as well. M. Blanchar's Pastor moves with automatic thoroughness towards the catastrophe, not thinking, as other men might, whether what he is doing is right or wrong. What he is doing is natural...