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This week the ship was free of the mud. The danger interval was past. But newsreel crews, photographers and reporters watching from their gallery along the elevated highway would play through many a stud game before the job was finished. The Navy would have to wait longer still before the reborn Lafayette made people forget the burned Normandie...
British cinemas last week showed Winston Churchill's recent meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. The same newsreel included a brief shot of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arriving in Washington during Churchill's visit. British audiences were attentive to Churchill and Roosevelt, but made no demonstration. When the Windsors appeared, houses echoed with applause and cheers...
...shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views...
...newsreels, which have broken more candidates than the old two-thirds rule, he can pose without a qualm. Even with an Indian bonnet or a dead fish, the crudest newsreel props of all, he is neither overwhelming nor silly. He can wear striped pants without looking as if 1) they are rented, or 2) he approves of them...
Schuman is a historian, concentrated-evidently like his author-not only on the vision of freedom, but also on those obstacles to freedom which seem intrinsic in the very effort to achieve it. When he is telling his own story, he offers a perhaps too facile newsreel of the past two decades." When he is talking history and quoting-he quotes, it seems, nearly every man who has ever written well, usually very aptly-Never Call Retreat becomes as rich an anthology of ravenous reading as ever disguised itself as a novel. When he is talking politics, or living them...