Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advice is given by the Virgin Mary, Dante and the Unknown Soldier. Finally the assemblage decides that a superman must do battle with the devil, now personified as Bolshevism. God the Father summons the Archangel Gabriel, commands him to descend to Earth and find...
...that the original book "Im Westen nichts Neues" had met with the whole-hearted approval of the generation for which it spoke. Still they tolerated it as sincere personal anecdote. In the book it was Erich Remarque who experienced this life and not the German soldier. But with the film the situation was different. Here an actor lived out the part symbolized by the "I" in the book. Thus in the film it was much more the German soldier than the war as related by any participator. With this in mind, then, it is not hard to understand the annoyance...
...fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of the youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been canceled from my mind. I myself was seriously wounded. In the years that have since elapsed and at the present time, both as man and as head of the government, I have had before me a panorama of political, economic and moral consequences of the War, and not in Italy alone...
With 2,000,000 Britons officially "unemployed" the objective looked easy, is actually almost insurmountable. Reason: an unemployed man loafing on the "dole" is paid more than a hard-drilling British soldier...
...desperate is the War Ministry that parents, wives, sweethearts of likely young men are being conducted on special tours through barracks. To these ladies "the advantages of a soldier's life" are explained. They are told that son, husband or fiance will have an equal vote with the rest of his barrack comrades as to what they shall eat. A vote against prunes, for example, will banish that fruit from Tommy Atkins' table...