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...would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
...words of the Wallace foreign policy argument echoed and re-echoed. Onetime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau went down the line: outlaw the atom bomb, reduce armaments, stick to the Four Freedoms of F.D.R. Said Harold Ickes: "We must spare no effort to get along with Russia...
...some of their traditional autonomy, even restored to them the flags that Vargas had burned, in a gesture of federal supremacy. But Brazil's cities would be allowed no municipal elections. The right to strike was guaranteed. But another clause aroused Communists by giving the Government power to outlaw any party "contrary to a democratic regime." And divorce was still impossible in Brazil...
Flagg considers Jane (The Outlaw) Russell "perhaps the last word in sultritude . . . she slipped her arm in mine and said: 'I like you!' 'Yes-and why?' I asked. 'Because you remind me of my grandfather,' she beamed. Period...