Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Wilfrid Fleisher, who for ten years was managing editor of his father's Japan Advertiser until it was more or less forcibly bought out with German money last month, arrived in San Francisco. For the first time in many years - since he knew he was not going back to Japan - he spoke with neither official nor self-imposed censorship...
...boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs...
...redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears the bells...
Premier Abe nervously hurried around to talk with the Emperor and the Grand Keeper of the Imperial Seals. Afterwards Wilfrid Fleisher reported: "The Cabinet apparently has decided to carry on. ... [but] it is believed that the days of the Government are numbered and its downfall is looked for before the Diet reconvenes...
...When Wilfrid Fleisher began talking about the future, the censors pricked up their ears: "There has been no speculation in the press so far," he said, "regarding the personnel of a new Cabinet, but the name of Prince Fumimaro Konoye-" Snip! The conversation was cut off. But, as usual, Wilfrid Fleisher's dope...