Word: objectore
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...maddening set of twins, Olivia de Havilland does a neat job of keeping everyone, including the audience, properly baffled. Lew Ayres, who left Hollywood under a wartime cloud in 1942 when he registered as a conscientious objector, makes his first postwar screen appearance. Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front...
...cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...such matters as evangelism, race relations, radio, labor relations, "international justice & good will," etc. The Council itself spends no money on relief or missions, but it underwrites the budgets of several interdenominational religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
...Strong Objector. Great Britain, which was neither very worried nor very hopeful about Bretton Woods, was just going to do her damnedest to make Bretton Woods and its related arrangements work well for Britain. Bretton Woods was part & parcel of the larger deal with the U.S. whereby Britain got a loan she badly needed, and in return promised to relax the exchange controls and imperial preferences which had bolstered her trade within the sterling area. British objections were aimed at two features of the Bretton Woods plan...
Sergeant Lew Ayres, once famed as the screen's lofty and antiseptic Dr. Kildare, now a veteran and still a conscientious objector (though he thinks compulsory military training might be a good idea), got back from the Pacific, where he was a chaplain's assistant with a hospital unit, made first-wave landings -on Leyte and Luzon. His post-discharge plans: perhaps a go at writing, producing or acting in educational and religious movies, "teaching men to understand one another...