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...England. Soon she learned, to her amazement, that with them was going her American lover, Simon, who, by an unusual coincidence, had joined the British Commandos and been left behind in Brittany after a commando raid. As more & more evidence appeared to incriminate the Galle household, Franchise was torn by conflicting desires: to save the hostages, to see her suspected brother and lover escape...
Featuring films portraying life in war-torn countries of Europe and a film, the original of which was condemned and burned by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, the Film Society this year is planning the most ambitious program in its history...
...first case of missionaries martyred by the Japanese in World War II was reported last week. At Ruavatu on war-torn Guadalcanal four Roman Catholic missionaries of the Society of Mary and the Marist Fathers were bayoneted in the throat: Sisters Mary Sulvia of France and Mary Odilia of Italy, Father Henry Engberink of The Netherlands and Massechusetts-born Father Arthur Duhamel. Three days later the Dutch announced that eight more Catholics, including the 70-year-old Bishop of the Kai Islands, north of Australia, had been executed...
Congress is still playing politics with the draft act. The O'Daniel amendment, disqualifying teenagers from overseas service until the completion of a year's training, can only complicate the organization of fighting units. The facts of war will not be altered; American "babes" will still be torn from their high-school teachers' arms. A few more Texas mothers may vote for "Pappy," but politics not military necessity will have called the tune. As amended the bill remains an election measure, proving to the people that Congress is allowing the Army requisite manpower, but making the proof so painless that...
Painted during one of Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...