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...historic statement of U.S. policy, Franklin Roosevelt last week told the world that the U.S. will defend not only Britain, not only the U.S., but China too. "Hitler's plan of world domination would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is the epic resistance of Britain. . . . The other is the magnificent defense of China. . . ." In effect, the President signed and sealed a new alliance. To the totalitarian Axis of Rome, Berlin and Tokyo, he opposed a rival, democratic Axis, reaching from London across the Atlantic to Washington, across the Pacific to Chungking...
...headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain Bligh's epic voyage with the loyal crew of the Bounty...
Last year's Battle of Britain will go into the books as one of the most epic-if not the most decisive-in history. It was like Marathon, Tours, the Catalaunian Fields-by every human reckoning the Nazis should have won. They did not, or if they did, they did not know...
...Napoleonic Wars: the romance of the great one-eyed, one-armed sea dog, Horatio, Lord Nelson (Laurence Olivier), and the frivolous Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current tangle with Hitler...
...Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...