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...ranking clergy of Great Britain to the foot of the altar steps. The orders of knighthood followed-Bath, Thistle and Garter-then the standards of the Commonwealth, led by Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York and Canterbury), and the Lord High Chancellor of England in full-bottomed wig and gown. Last...
...answer to these criticisms. Rommel is again played by James Mason, but the Desert Fox has undergone a change of dramatic color: no longer a generous desert fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats flashes back some 18 months to depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart...
...failure of the quartermaster to keep him adequately supplied which Rommel blames for his ultimate defeat beginning at El Alamein. Even in his gallant tribute to the man who beat him, he injects a bitter note on the Eighth Army's superior supply situation: "Montgomery did not leave the slightest detail out of his calculations . . . His principle was to fight no battle unless he knew for certain he would win it. Of course, that is a method that will only work given material superiority; but that he had ... It would be difficult to accuse Montgomery of ... a serious strategic...
...when Rommel was threatening Alexandria and the British feared an Egyptian stab in the back, British tanks battered down the gates of Abdin Palace and forced King Farouk to accept Nahas Pasha as Premier. That evening a 24-year-old Egyptian captain, attached to the British at El Alamein, wrote his brother: "I am glad for this incident. This cut of the knife has given life back to our young officers...
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...