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Cried the Christian Democrat Popolo: "There is fear of a Red revolution." Growled the Communist Unita: "The situation is grave and will certainly grow worse unless the masses are given to feel that liberation is not a vain word...
...Under the pretext that in wartime anyone who did not approve of the Government was a traitor to his country, the Government embarked on a campaign of intimidation ... in the vain hope that news of what was going on could be kept from the outside world...
...Woollcott concealed the real drama of his life. "I don't know what's wrong," he once told a friend who mentioned his endless babbling, "I hear myself going on and on and on and I can't stop." He longed to have children, and his vain attempts to love and marry preyed terribly on his mind. To stir his "torpid passions," he picked artificial "lovers' quarrels" with the women he most admired...
Today, the liberation of the Philippines is nearing completion. Manila Bay itself will take years to clear, but Liberty ships and big refrigerator ships already can tie up alongside the piers which the Japanese tried in vain to destroy; tens of thousands of tons are unloaded daily. Other tens of thousands still must go ashore over the beaches. But it gets ashore, to the men who need...
...rest of the movie, Tallulah contributes some very earthy kisses and a spirited champagne-drinking scene in a vain effort at seduction, while the new general equally vainly tries to reform the empire. Hints from his fiancee and several independent conspirators show the general that he is only a bondoir soldier. He retires, and the Czarina turns to the French ambassador for further amusement...