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...Philippines), Corregidor's "Voice of Freedom," a brigadier general in the U.S. Army under MacArthur, president of the fourth U.N. General Assembly, and finally his country's dual-role envoy to the U.N. and to Washington. But he was now a long way from home, and a prophet only in distant lands...
...prophet Jeremiah was hardly more sorrowful than sad-faced General Charles de Gaulle, announcing his decision last week to disband his political party. De Gaulle has always had a distaste for what he calls "the sterile games of politics." Although his Rally of the French People polled 4,300,000 votes in the 1951 elections and, next to the Communists and Socialists, is the largest party (85 seats) in the National Assembly, De Gaulle announced that henceforth his party members will act "in their individual capacity ... in the games, the poisons and the delights of the system." Reason: declining public...
...most Frenchmen the prophecy was undeniably gloomy. De Gaulle might answer that the prophet Jeremiah, in whose lifetime the Scythians swept over most of the civilized world, was also accused of undue gloominess...
Mahatma Gandhi-Twentieth Century Prophet (Stanley Neal Productions; United Artists). The still eloquent ghost of Mohandas Gandhi walks through this moving, full-length documentary about India's great leader. Culled from more than 10,000 ft. of film shot over a 37-year period, from Gandhi's early years in South Africa as a successful lawyer to his assassination in New Delhi in 1948, the highlights of his career are knit together with a stirring narration by Quentin Reynolds...
...would destroy much of the pleasure in the film to go on identifying the contemporary figures involved. Herod, the king, and Eliza, the prophet, should be no puzzle to the informed student...