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The facts of the matter are far more complex. In the film, the Communist threat ''does'' exist. But the person behind the campaign to popularize that threat ''is herself an agent of that threat.'' Or so she pretends, at least in her dealings with Soviet and Chinese agents that actually induce them to recruit and train an assassin and place that assassin at her disposal. What she actually intends is to seize power in America and then launch a war of revenge against her very helpers. That Mrs. Iselin would conceive that such a plan could actually work, only shows the profound megalomania that afflicts this character.

The facts of the matter are far more complex. In the film, the Communist threat ''does'' exist. But the person behind the campaign to popularize that threat ''is herself an agent of that threat.'' Or so she pretends, at least in her dealings with Soviet and Chinese agents that actually induce them to recruit and train an assassin and place that assassin at her disposal. What she actually intends is to seize power in America and then launch a war of revenge against her very helpers. That Mrs. Iselin would conceive that such a plan could actually work, only shows the profound megalomania that afflicts this character.

The recent decision by the estate of Frank Sinatra to license this film for broadcast on American [[television]] (chiefly by [[Turner Classic Movies]]), coming as it does a scant seven years after the [[Attacks of September 11, 2001]], might or might not be coincidental. Several commentators, of both [[liberal]] and [[libertarian]] persuasions, have concluded, either recently or shortly after those attacks occurred, that the attacks were in fact "false-flag operations" perpetrated by the United States government as a campaign of exactly the sort of popular emotional manipulation that Mrs. Iselin attempts in this film.

The recent decision by the estate of Frank Sinatra to license this film for broadcast on American [[television]] (chiefly by [[Turner Classic Movies]]), coming as it does a scant seven years after the [[September 11 attacks]], might or might not be coincidental. Several commentators, of both [[liberal]] and [[libertarian]] persuasions, have concluded, either recently or shortly after those attacks occurred, that the attacks were in fact "false-flag operations" perpetrated by the United States government as a campaign of exactly the sort of popular emotional manipulation that Mrs. Iselin attempts in this film.

=== Other themes ===

=== Other themes ===