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Said Nuri Pasha after canvassing Arab leaders and rulers of Trans-Jordan, Syria, the Lebanon and Palestine: "I found general agreement among the majority [on] reunion of these countries into a united Syria as it existed before the last great...
Principal stumble points for this dream solution: 1) French interests in Syria and the Lebanon; 2) British mandates in Trans-Jordan and Palestine; 3) Zionism; 4) the still undisclosed attitude of Saudi Arabia's powerful, circumspect Ibn Saud...
...political intensities and by depths of human strength, weakness and need which Paramount has seen fit, or been forced, to remove. But the screen version of Ernest Hemingway's novel is still a story of love and violence in the Spanish Civil War. Gary Cooper is Robert Jordan, Hemingway's young Montana schoolteacher who has come to Spain to fight for democracy everywhere. Gary Cooper, over the years, has so cornered the beloved American romantic virtues of taciturnity, melancholy, tenderness, valor and masculine gauche grace that he has become, for millions, a sort of Abraham Lincoln of American...
...cinema treatment of the central action of Hemingway's book. In Paramount's version Jordan's dynamiting of the strategic bridge is a genuinely exciting bit of suspense. But two dozen grade-B melodramas handle the same theme better every year...
...screen Ernest Hemingway's most delicate episodes, the nights that Jordan and Maria spend together in a sleeping robe, are expertly elusive. Paramount's answer to one wag's question, whether the Hays Office would let sleeping bags lie, is: Yes, but don't go near the water. The closest study cannot determine whether either or both the lovers are or are not in or out of the bag at any time...