Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London last week, two new books had Parliament, press and public wondering just how good British intelligence really was. Both dealt with the French Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...Radio Game. All, claims Author Nicholas, were victims of the "radio game": Abwehr, the German counterintelligence, when it had captured an agent and his set, often kept right on sending messages to London, using captured codes, and arranging for air drops of agents and supplies. London's S.O.E. security seemed incredibly lax. Agents had been taught to misspell words in predetermined sections of each message. Once, when the Abwehr sent a fake message through without the misspellings, London merely chided: "You forgot your double security check. Be more careful...
...Double Webs, Author Jean Overton Fuller charges that S.O.E. was totally fooled by a French-born double agent code-named "Gilbert," who was better known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion...
...always write about something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than any other kind. Osborne has an almost unique ability to make moral passion into...
Secretary Anders Oesterling of the Royal Swedish Academy paid tribute to Pasternak, the author of the anti-Communist novel "Doctor Zhivago" who was forced by Soviet pressure to turn down the literature prize...