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...Some of the song titles: Our Glorious America, Defend Your Country, There's Millions of Yankees On Their Way, Buckle Down Buck Private...
...meaning-but they felt, though no one told them, that Singapore fell without honor. Embattled upon an island thousands of miles from the battlefronts, forty million people felt profoundly unheroic. And only a year ago these same people-soldiers, tradesmen and housewives-had written into the history of a glorious empire its most heroic chapter...
...Empire was not triumphant in war; why the young men kept going to China and the pathetic boxes of their ashes kept coming back. But now it was almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...
...enough Americans are willing to carry out the amount of democracy they advocate and fight for, the future won't hold much for their sons and grandsons. For no nation with a split personality can expect a great and glorious growth, and no nation "divided against itself" can expect to stand for long...
...about love in the tropics, with all the usual background of palm-trees, native uprisings, dishonest fellows, and virile torsos. In the end, of course, Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Caribbean blue. The only good things about the picture are madeleine Carroll and the Glorious Technicolor. An actress as charming and demure as Miss Carroll was certainly meant for better things than "Bahama Passage...