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...they got an awfully dirty deal in this war; never had anything to look forward to. Me, I lost a redheaded kid brother, and I looked at these kids and at our job over here, and, by God, I don't ever want to think he died in vain. So I decided to do something...
After World War I, isolationists and liberals disillusioned with Versailles, alike, joined in temporary alliance to sell this country the defeatist bill of goods that the war had been fought in vain and that this country's "national sovereignty" was contingent on its avoidance of foreign infection from international organizations. And so the upper chamber of this nation's legislature, incidentally breaking Mr. Wilson's heart, decided not to involve the United States in the League of Nations lest this country be drawn into another World War. Russia was not permitted to become a member state of the League...
...order that this may be accomplished, there must be an act of faith in which millions of families speaking many languages must consciously take part. We all know that the two world wars through which we have passed arose out of a vain passion of a newly united Germany to play a dominating part in the world...
...Though I am not conceited," writes Flagg, "I am a vain creature." Whatever he means by the distinction, he has some excuse for vanity. He sold his first drawing (to St. Nicholas magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties...
Connoisseurs of good tunes, however, and members of the Jeanne Crain cult, will find ample compensation for the vagaries of the story as well as for the uninteresting technicolor, the bad dialogue, and Corned Wilde's French accent. "All Through The Day" and "In Love In Vain" Eave been popular for weeks now, and better yet is "Cinderella Sue," a number which Avon Lang makes worth the venerated price of admission. As for Miss Crain, she is as unaffected and pleasant as she is easy on the eyes, despite the uninspired company of such experienced Fox low standard bearers...