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...social security and other plans dear to his own heart but anathema to many a Congressman. Instead he spoke in broad outlines, with friendly, conciliatory gestures. Probably bitter fights were inevitable between this Congress and the Administration, but the President had at least postponed them. Not since the first "honeymoon days" of his Administration had Franklin Roosevelt received such an overwhelmingly favorable reaction to a speech. Not since the first days after Pearl Harbor had Washington seemed so united on the broad objectives of winning the war and the peace...
...Brooklyn, Samuel Feldman, 85, and Malka Levinthal, 87, eloped from an old people's home, went back for their honeymoon...
Sophisticated comedy is hardly at home in Hitler's Europe. But it is there, amidst scenes of the suffering and misery that have unfolded since 1939, that MGM has placed its latest effort at well-bred laughs, "Once Upon A Honeymoon." The cast is sure-fire, Ginger Rogers as a Minsky Melter gone broad A, Cary Grant in a reporter part tailored to his tongue-in-cheek virility, and a newcomer, Walter Slezak, as the type of Brownshirted bully that gestapoes himself into disfavor handily. But even these stalwarts are helpless in a plot that ambles from fantastic nonsense...
...nonsense concerns Grant's rather natural interest in the little ecdysiast gone good via marriage to one of Der Fuehrer's greasier agents. Fifth-columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story...
Cocktail parties in Warsaw miss their mark when a Jewish family is about to be "liquidated." Dialogue in a Polish concentration camp is smothered by the wails of an entire colony on its way to the Nazi form of final justice. A honeymoon through northern France loses its gayety when interrupted by streams of panic-stricken refugees...