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...Communists, who had expected eventually to be outlawed as a party, were surprised both at the suddenness and the form of MacArthur's edict. They appointed a new eight-man control group and called in vain for a general strike. They ground out denunciations of the purge. Japanese police were kept busy arresting minor Communists for attempts at public agitation against MacArthur's action...
Since the war Henri and Isabelle have spent most of their time in Portugal, rearing their children and trying in vain to make a 150-acre farm pay profits. When he heard the news of the Law of Exile's repeal, Henri said: "I intend to settle down in la douce France for good. I want to go first to my family's old Chateau d'Amboise, where I hope to live with my wife and children." Henri's friends in Paris shook their heads in contemplation of the ancient royal chateau's lack...
...finally decides that there is only one clear way into "the company of men," i.e., by becoming as merciless, as cruel and as cowardly as men all seem to be. At the end of a long police chase, in which he has sought in vain for a single person capable of a disinterested act of charity, he shoots Vanderputte-the only human being who has done him a kindness since his father's death...
...stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt, he empties a shotgun at Elizabeth from a distance of ten paces-but misses. Abandoned by the party, with Scotland...
...Paramount) is an uneven mixture of effective thriller, bathos, and the kind of melodramatics that calls on an audience to hiss the villain. In Broadway Actor Lyle Bettger, a vain-looking blond with a built-in sneer, the movie also offers a likely candidate for the most hissable heavy since Erich von Stroheim...