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...Crime Would Be Mortal. In the darkest hour since Dunkirk, Churchill's voice reached untold millions of British subjects in a broadcast from 10 Downing Street. There was plenty of fight still left in his tough, pudgy frame, but he was more somber, less eloquent than he had ever been before. "All I have to offer," he said, "is hard adverse war for many months ahead. . . . Many misfortunes, severe, tortuous losses, remorseless and gnawing anxieties, lie before...
...side which carried Britain through her darkest previous hours: "One fault, one crime and one crime only can rob the United Nations and the British people . . . of the victory upon which their lives and honor depends: a weakening in our purpose, and therefore in our unity. That is the mortal crime...
...time for all good cellulords to rally their material and dress up Patriotism in the garb of history for the consumption of wide-eyed school children. Some of these attempts--"Night Train," "The Mortal Storm,"--have been powerfully done. But "They Died With Their Boots On" is in the same class with "Sergeant York": confused in its theme; rambling in its plot; corny in its characterizations...
...week brought anti-trust actions against NBC and CBS. The suits were filed on New Year's Eve, thus came under the wire as an event of 1941-the year when the New Deal finally got around to radio. Engaged since October in what they declare to be mortal combat with the Federal Communications Commission, the two big broadcasting companies now faced a second attack...
...Good Neighbor growing his old Uncle Shylock whiskers. Frankin Roosevelt is liked, but Theodore is not forgotten. Herring condemns the burgeoning official propaganda agencies which are making Good Neighborliness as obnoxious as a radio commercial plug, and he urges more movies like "The Great Dictator" and "The Mortal Storm" along with wider distribution of American magazines translated into southern tongues. He also condemns the proponents of the American Century, whose ill-concealed imperialism turns against us the very people we most need for friends in any plan of American defense. We must appreciate the South American nations with the kindly...