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Four current movies plead the cause of the Jews in Palestine. Historical context and merits of their own give three of them a moving, urgent forcefulness; but all four are too heavily packed with propaganda for general effectiveness...
...over Vienna, posters bearing the pictures of long-missing soldiers plead: "Who knows anything about my husband . . . son . . . father . . . ? Last heard from at the Battle of Stalingrad. . . ." With heavy hearts Austrians wonder about their 100,000 soldiers who are still prisoners of war in Russia...
...sympathy for expanding U.S. ventures in internationalism. House-Senate conferees agreed on an import fee on wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under Secretary Will Clayton had to rush before a House committee to plead for extension of the Maritime Commission's power to operate the tankers and charter the cargo vessels which are currently keeping Europe alive. Certainly no program calling for a yearly expenditure of $5 billion had a chance in the present session...
These silent little victims stare as if in mute reproach to our generation of "adults" whose puerile irresponsibility let this war come to pass. Weary, aged and disillusioned beyond their years, they plead the case for relief and rehabilitation far more eloquently than their elders who . . . have so grievously failed them...
...quarter of a century ago, at Commencement time, 520 seniors members of the class of 1922 were welcomed into the company of educated men by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. The same afternoon they heard Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and the Attorney General of Massachusetts plead for the continuance of American traditions, internationalism, and disarmament...