Word: silva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina has sent the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva to screen the applicants. He takes former Fascists, provided they have no criminal records, but rejects Communists. Last week, irritated by this discrimination, the Communist-dominated Italian Labor Federation demanded the right to select the emigrants and asked for guarantees of labor conditions in Argentina. Father Silva threatened to call the whole thing...
Booking Agent. In Rome, an extraordinary Argentine emissary had already begun the selecting. He was the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva, member of the Salesian order and brother of President Peron's military secretary. His mission: to find in Italy and Spain (while Diplomat Adolfo Scilingo scouted the rest of Europe) the 250,000 workers, preferably skilled factory hands, whom Juan Peron needs for his five-year plan...
Since Father Silva set up shop last month in Rome's luxurious Grand Hotel, 35,000 Italians had filled out his forms. Applications stressed a desire for "peace." Many reviewed war casualties in the family, general impoverishment. All had to sign affidavits of their political correctness (meaning anti-Communist...
...Father Silva's first boatload will sail from Genoa next month. Soon it will be followed by 3,000 Poles, members of General Anders' army. By the time Father Silva has opened his Spanish office, he hopes to be sending 5,000 emigrants a month from Europe, all in Argentine ships...
...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...