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...Beaucerons did not know the issues by the time they went to the polls, politicians had wasted five weeks of energetic oratory, such epithets as "fascist" and "crook," and some $350,000 in campaign funds. It was a hangup show. Political organizers swarmed in, hired private homes at $25 a throw to give vote-catching parties, plied the voters with imported Scotch, handed out $5 and $10 bills for displaying candidates' pictures...
...Oswald Mosley, Britain's prewar fascist leader who spent most of the war years in the clink (for the empire's protection), was haled to court for neglecting the pigs on his Crow Wood Farm. An in spector said that the pigs - 76 in a pen 40-by-35 ft. - looked underfed and "most unhappy." Worms, not starvation, made the pigs look peaked, Sir Oswald explained, and was promptly freed...
Confidential Agent (Warner) is in the best tradition of Warner Brothers' socially significant melodramas. Inspired by Graham Greene's excellent anti-fascist thriller, the film has all the thrills and some of the political indignation of the book...
...with a broadcast made shortly after the Germans invaded Russia. It is devoted chiefly to explaining why Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and why the Red Army was not ready to repel the Nazis ("Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort to perfidy"). The last speech proclaims victory ("From now on over Europe will...
...That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath...