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...Lords and members of the House of Commons: Measures will be submitted to you for compensating those whose home or business property has, at any time since the outbreak of hostilities, been destroyed or damaged by enemy attack, and for extending insurance against the risk of such damage in all forms of movable property which are not at present protected...
safety. From the course that the campaign had taken it was apparent that only on that issue had he an overwhelming mandate from the people. To the growing exclusion of domestic affairs and of ordinary politics, Franklin Roosevelt had, since the outbreak of World War II, become chiefly preoccupied with this biggest job. Working at it on the principle that this war was more diplomatic than military, he had tried to lay foundations for international political successes, and ma neuver toward a peace that no man could anticipate...
...fable, fantasy and monstrosity is British Producer Alexander Korda's biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...
Showing no surprise over these revelations, Chairman Martin Dies next day trumpeted that there were 300,000 fifth columnists in the U. S. Industry was honeycombed with potential saboteurs, he said, and ominously predicted an outbreak any day of incidents like the "recent Hercules Powder explosion in New Jersey" -unless the Federal Government took steps...
...Claudette Colbert) through a series of romantic interludes spiced with lines whose moral and political implications would have made the Hays office of a year ago writhe in righteous indignation. While Milland is escaping from a Spanish prison camp, drinking with Miss Colbert in Paris just prior to the outbreak of war, and making love in the forest of Compiegne during the signing of the armistice with Hitler, some of the season's funniest lines and most censorable situations are unreeled. Examples: Explaining to Colbert why she is just his type, Milland remarks that she reminds...