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Hollywood, in its treatment of "our gallant Russian ally" as usual, comes with too little, too late. Evidently still punchy from the conviction that they are flying in the face of all convention by writing about Russia at all, they are content to abandon as irrelevant all considerations of artistic merit. They are introducing Russia to the American people; that's enough to justify "Mission to Moscow" and "The North Star." That Russia is no longer taboo in the drawing rooms, and that the more conservative journals discuss thte Red Army quite freely, seems to have escaped them...
Socialist C.C.F. Leader Major James Coldwell emphatically agreed. Said he: "The genius of the British Commonwealth is its recognition of basic unity in diversity. Lord Halifax proposes that we abandon this historic principle. Such rigidity would destroy the Commonwealth...
Scuttlebutt is a form of verbal holiday with which many military establishments are afflicted. It is in all cases transmitted by the "O" (for oral) method, and is usually bruited about with a most exhilirating abandon...
...main requirements for collapsing Germany quickly and with small loss of life is to cause the defection of her satellites. Her satellites will abandon her only when their expectation of Germany's early defeat exceeds their fear of German retaliation. The moves of the Allied forces as well as the efforts of Allied propagandists have been designed to speed that expectation-to produce it at an early date...
...Generous and mentally at ease: "He cultivates his conduct without cease and in his private life he does not abandon himself. When he is successful, he does not depart from the truth. In his personal manners he values living in peace and harmony with others. . . . He admires those cleverer than himself and is generous toward the masses and is flexible in principle...