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Same Shirt, New Color. Later, some of the extreme Fascist laws will be repealed. But under the pretense of urgency and the guise of martial law "the government will continue to keep the press, the associations, the assemblies, and all labor and trade unions under strict control. What was formerly the Fascist militia will don a shirt of another color and take another name, but it will continue to act as the political police of the regime...
...Radio programs were cleaned up drastically, obnoxious commercials banned or cut down to 100 words between programs, classical music made compulsory at least once daily, serials, quiz shows, announcements and song lyrics* subjected to strict censorship to cut out slang and uplift the cultural level...
Although it is a strict military secret whether any of the men trained as military governors at Harvard have been sent into the field, the school when it opened last September announced that its courses "were to include maximum training in the administration of middle European and Mediterranean areas where occupation would likely take place". With the expressed purpose of the school to concentrate on these areas, it is quite probable that Friedrich's men may now be holding posts in North Africa and Sicily...
...tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed in "The Constant Nymph...
...first bomb in the earth-crawling battles of World War I. It is land warfare carried to the air in battles as intricately planned, as painstakingly put into operation as the movement of great armies on the ground. It is a war in which each airplane flies in strict coordination with hundreds of others, in which every bomb dropped contributes its share to a carefully planned pattern of destruction. This pattern, by its cumulative effect, is designed to bring Germany to her knees...