She was unwilling to confront her middle-age while finding new values and relationships in Europe (as an ugly American) and regarding her older husband as boring and uncreative.This is why his presence, or the presence of any Medal of Honor winner is sufficient to bring generals to their feet saluting.In the same year, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director for the Best Picture-winning filmRebecca (1940)- his first American film (Foreign Correspondentwas Hitchcock""s second film in 1940).Owen and Claire drove further into the restricted area and discovered he destroyed Gyrosphere, and surmised that the boys "made it out" (muddy footprints revealed their flight) and bravely "jumped" at he waterfall to save themselves.In the spoof, she invents a fictitious reader as he author of a letter - a suicide-martyr who protests against an injust political and social system.