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...basic situation shows two handicapped people trying to help each other find the way back to mental security. One is a psychoneurotic soldier on his own for two weeks--the other an inmate of a women's prison, freed for a Christmas "furlough." The field for honest psychological exploration in large and inviting, but the movie takes instead the high road to popular appeal...
...Aachen, first Rhineland city to be freed, the process advanced a stage further. German workers formed themselves into a trade union, denounced Naziism, demanded an eight-hour day and the right to strike...
Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
From the Ministry of Supply came an unostentatious announcement that 19 Government-owned war factories, employing 50,000 workers, had been released for civilian production. Simultaneously came news that one of Britain's leading automobile makers, Standard of Coventry, whose trademark is a Union Jack, had been freed from war output a month ago. Dunlop of Speke (manufacturer of rubber products) had been similarly released last fortnight...
Last week the armed services were making an appraisal of their Pacific war needs and in the process trying to draw up a list of plants which can be freed for civilian manufacture after V-E day. Not until he has this information can Jimmy Byrnes draft an overall reconversion plan, a job that may well take another month...