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...What anger and bitterness remained was spent by Montana's Burton K. Wheeler in a quarrelsome, three-hour speech about the peace. He grudgingly announced his intention to vote for the Charter, but he argued against most of its major premises. The "real fight," he promised, would come when legislation to implement U.S. participation reaches the Senate-perhaps not for more than a year. Then there would be a lot to say about Article 43 (which binds the U.S. and other participants to make armed forces available to fight aggression...
...Bell for Adano (20th Century-Fox) has a crack in it. Thanks to Hollywood's passionate desire to please practically everybody, this third telling of John Hersey's story fails to achieve the honest anger of the novel. It also lacks the resourcefulness and verisimilitude of the play...
Would any Senator willingly arouse G.I. ire? Obviously not. Yet the New York Times last week headlined: SENATORS IN ITALY STIR ARMY ANGER...
Sure, we are all fighting mad because of the recently unveiled atrocities in Germany. That is to be expected. But in our temporary blind fit of anger let's not take any pseudo-chauvinistic action for which we will be sorry when we-calm down. After all, why make an entire people suffer because of the actions of only a few of its leaders...
This second half of the picture is played with a rare amount of honest anger and courage. The local Chamber of Commerce go-getters are mercilessly rendered by Frank McHugh, Charles Dingle and Grant Mitchell; and J. Carrol Naish, who is clearly one of Hollywood's top actors, is a perfect foil for them. Yet the picture has one persistent weakness. If it were honest down to the ground, as it means to be, at least one of the boosters might have had serious misgivings...