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Family tensions amid wartime talks and a German guest
Elizabeth Herlong faces a creeping fear as her children debate war and ideals while the family prepares for a dinner with Mr. Kessler, a German refugee working on a film. Dick and Cherry clash over propaganda and truth, and Elizabeth confronts her own cowardice about the era's violence. The scene shifts from parlor to balcony as the family weighs danger and duty.
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Cherry
Pudge
America
Julia
Wake Island
Brotherhood of Man
State Department
United States
Elizabeth
Spratt
War
Mr. Kessler
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