. . . apparent Japanese Fifth Columnist saboteur Daffy Duck says to the camera while riding a heavy explosive shell that he's helped to unleash down toward the magazine of an American battleship, DR. STRANGELOVE-style, during the early days of World War Two. The U.S. War Dept. had secretly ordered Warner Bros. to present the Asian Island Nation's Infamous Sneak Attack upon Pearl Harbor in the most humorous vein possible, to boost sagging morale on the Homefront, as well as to brighten the grim outlook of U.S. Naval Personnel, reeling from costly defeat after defeat at the hands of a virtually inscrutable enemy. So it came to pass that this animated Warner short, CONRAD THE SAILOR, cheered up the recuperating future American President J.F. Kennedy (whose boat had been vivisected), along with countless other tars and swabs. Though CONRAD preceded the U.S. Military's "Don't ask, don't tell" Policy by decades, Daffy is shown kissing Conrad full on the lips, as the Navy knew it would need every Gay and Transgendered New Recruit it could get its mitts on to sink Japan's Emperor Hirohito.
Review of Conrad the Sailor
