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...Rainbow" lauds the resistance of the Russian partisans, a shorter co-feature, "Leningrad Music Hall," points to Soviet efforts and artistic successes in peacetime life. While it is pretty well chopped up, the picture has many intervals of greatness; its artistic appeal is universal, and avoids the language barrier necessarily present to some extent in "The Rainbow...
...point the Russians had surged over the Nida River, the last formidable water barrier before Cracow. Only 40 miles beyond that ancient fortress of Poland's kings are the industrial towns on Germany's Silesian border...
...west bank. The Ninth, which had reached its positions first, had been relatively quiet for a fortnight, obviously accumulating strength for a leap across. Now assured of a gory niche in military annals, the Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides clearly regarded as crucial. The Germans had fought viciously to prevent the Americans even from reaching the muddy shore, and they could be expected to try even harder to disrupt a crossing...
...placed in a ward with four congenial and humor-loving soldiers. The other men are under orders to break down the reserve of the Scot and make him "belong" before his death, and the efforts of the four soldiers and their nurse to accomplish this task over the mountainous barrier of the Scotchman's intrespective soul make a penetratingly effective plot...
Then Togliatti spoke. He said: "We will never allow Italy and the Soviet proletariat to see between them a barrier such as reactionary groups have vainly attempted to construct. . . . Our Soviet comrades await from us proof of our good faith, and we must conduct with the greatest energy the fight against the Fascist bureaucracy in our ministries. . . ." The Cabinet crisis continued...