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...cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero again at 35 East Twelfth Street...
...Dukes, and notably Peter Fernandez and Al Ramsen, give excellent performances. They do so well, in fact, that they could get along without any help from Pundit Pearson, who shows up again at the end to preach the moral. In the process, he almost pulls the teeth of a film that has a lot of bite...
...clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach a funeral sermon over my corpse, I believe that like Lazarus, I would throw aside the cerements of the grave and come back to life in indignant resurrection...
Sympathy and reticence were somewhat easier in Britain than in other EGA fields. No one was plugging away at the Marshall Plan goal of independent economy by 1953 with more determined self-help than self-denying Britons. Finletter had no need to pressure or preach. Socialist Britain, in fact, could be quite touchy about capitalist America's help. As Finletter well knew, EGA could come a political cropper if it crudely pressed a capitalist tract into Britain's hand along with the ham sandwich...
...Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed. The villagers agreed. Farmer Takahashi and ex-Mayor Hitoshi Kataoka were commissioned to invite the Catholics to town...