Word: alamein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buckingham Palace announced that some of the Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...batch of new military awards, topped by the "Cape of Good Hope" decoration, a five-sided disk which takes precedence over all other decorations, orders and medals. South African heroes of the two World Wars who won Britain's coveted V.C. (Victoria Cross) at Flanders or El Alamein may still wear their medals, but these are now to be regarded as "foreign" decorations...
...took over railroad stations, harbors and telephone exchanges. Mechanized infantry sealed off the city of Suez. The commander of Britain's powerful Suez garrison is a tough, combat-seasoned soldier, Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, 52, who won the D.S.O. for helping to repel Rommel at El Alamein (said his citation: "He changed the whole course of battle"). "We are not going to be turned out, forced out or kicked out," he announced. His first move: to isolate Egyptian troops in the Sinai peninsula to the east of the canal...
...undoubtedly, an interesting movie. Beginning with an unusual and active prologue, "The Desert Fox" flashes back for complete coverage of Rommel's life from the British breakthrough at EI Alamein to his suicide in 1945. James Mason, as the general, succeeds in portraying the character called for by the script. It almost appears possible for a man to be at once a hard, supremely competent Field Marshal and a confused, incredibly native politician...
Based on the bestselling biography by Britain's Desmond Young (TIME, Jan. 22) and reflecting Author Young's same reluctant admiration for the enemy, The Desert Fox opens in North Africa with the German disaster at El Alamein. Rommel flies back to Germany to recover from an attack of jaundice and brood on Hitler's failure to keep the Afrika Korps adequately supplied. While in this mood, Rommel is sounded out by one of the ringleaders in a conspiracy against Hitler...