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...American fantasy-that the U.S. could be China's protector-began about the turn of the century. On the one hand there was John Hay's "Open Door" policy, which in fact meant that the U.S. demanded equal trading rights with the European powers. On the other, there was the zeal, mostly idealistic, of religious missionaries, whose work had the support of millions back home. By the end of World War I, the sense of mission and patronage was so strong that public and press angrily denounced Woodrow Wilson when he acquiesced to Japan's taking over...
...FABLE: The people of a mythical city-state, convinced that the outside world is full of dangerous dragons, believe that they have been spared only because of their protector, whom they lovingly call Dra-Dra. Because of constant brainwashing, the people refuse to admit that Dra-Dra is actually a dragon himself. Playing on their fears, Dra-Dra magnifies the outside peril and thrives on sycophantic praise. A psalm to Dra-Dra consists of the word ja (yes) intoned 36 times...
...abolished monarchial rule, reformed the law, drew the blueprint for religious freedom. Yet he was preceded by one King Charles and followed by another. His followers were reviled or executed; his anti-Catholicism was notorious. Oliver Cromwell described himself as "a miserable and wretched creature"-but as Lord Protector he strode through England as God's appointed messenger...
Such work is the triumph of the technical adviser, not the film maker. The essences of conscience and character are left unfilled. Cromwell ends with a fatuous paragraph saluting Oliver's great contributions to democratic government. It never mentions that two years after his death, the Lord Protector's bones were dug up and hanged at Tyburn. No one knows precisely where Cromwell's remains now lie, and it is vain to search for any vestige of the man in the film that bears his name...
...flight from Nazareth. That association with air travel has been enough to make the town of 9,500 a profitable center of jet-age piety. Last week at least 50,000 pilgrims crammed in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a papal proclamation designating the Madonna of Loreto as protector of aviators; they overflowed the 20 hotels and dozen boarding houses that have gone up in Loreto in recent years. Prosperity from tourism has helped Loreto entrepreneurs to finance several small factories producing souvenirs and religious objects on the periphery of the town...