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...make up a community, and in which both show what they are made of. When the picture was shown to inmates of the Canon City prison recently, some of the recaptured convicts diffidently admitted that it didn't seem entirely true to life, but it is an abler and more honest try in that direction than most movies. There is impressively little hamming-up of story, and the characterizations and the danger and the suspense are unusually real and valid...
...impression is quite different from that given by TIME. These many thousand young people, from 60 or more nations, are full of vitality, remarkably friendly, and seem ready to work and to sacrifice for international understanding. True, many of their abler leaders are avowedly Communist, but that only makes more regrettable the decision of our State Department not to facilitate American participation...
...Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope. He was oblivious of such adult troubles, having just got over a nasty case of chickenpox...
King in Crisis. Preoccupied by these personal problems and pleasures, the Shah, Mohamed Reza, was scarcely the man to steer his country through a crisis. His Majlis (Parliament) of feudal landlords was not much help. Many of the abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran...
Trail of Defeat. Then Rommel and his Afrika Korps began the downhill trail which many a good general has trod. He was soundly defeated at El Alamein by an even abler general-Sir Bernard L. Montgomery-and by a superiority of power. Even so, his 1,500-mile retreat across North Africa to Tunisia was masterly. Had his career ended then, he might have been one of military history's heroes...