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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff (120) and the know-how to cull and present...
...President's remarks floored even loyal Administration leaders. As for the Republicans, many of them decided that in the light of what Harry Truman had said, they were ready at last to agree with the Southerners. The Southerners had been saying right along that any change in the present cloture rule would open the way for further attacks on the long-cherished right to talk in the Senate as long as voice and kidneys held out. Republican enthusiasm for the anti-filibuster fight, never great, dwindled...
...Bureau of the Census announced that one out of every eight married persons in the U.S. has been married more than once. The Gallup poll reported that only 49% of U.S. husbands & wives would remarry their present partners if they had the chance of starting over again...
...from Another World. There's Freedom is written with infectious moral fervor; few recent books on "world affairs" have made more sense on the essentials of the present crisis. It points out that the greatest menace confronting the West today is not an outside force from "another world." Communism is part and product of Western civilization, a symptom-like a fever sore-of its crisis. Western civilization produced the Communists, and gave them their strongest weapons. The Communists do not win their victories simply by launching "offensives" against the West; they win whenever and wherever a vacuum is created...
...when shown in its native country this would undoubtedly not be so. (There is a paradox in this--the half-a-dozen great Italian post-war films imported to America have had a larger audience here than in Italy. Since they have all dealt with the agonies of the present times, the Italians' preference for Miss Hayworth et al., is understandable...