Thank You RJ West.  Excellent site.  I appreciate it.  On Chaplin’s film.  “Unite” there’s the rub. I, and most would agree, cannot even unite their own community/workplace for obvious reasons that have been around for centuries. I still believe this is the ‘audition’ many will not get the part.

It’s important to remember that Chaplin said that had he known what was really going on, he never would have made the film.

It’s a great speech, and one that’s very pacifist.  That’s appropriate to some circumstances, but it makes the assumption that the other side feels similarly (how do you think a group like Al Qaeda would feel about the message?).

As far as commentary on the current war, the part that seems most appropriate is where Chaplin talks about surrendering reason to leaders.

For a very high resolution/quality of this speech, see my member area in web community http://www.veoh.com under my handle ‘MrNishi’. tag/key words= charlie chaplin, great dictator, fascism.  Truly amazing; this segment is MORE relevant than it was >65 years ago!  Lots of fine video in the veoh site!

That was why J. Edgar Hoover HATED Chaplin, and, when Chaplin went to Europe, engineered it so he couldn’t return to the United States, living out his life in Switzerland. 

Chaplin didn’t return to the US until the very end of his life.