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...great leader to have during the blitz. His personality was all roast beef and there was something of the thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt that they were seeing the very image of a modern, improved, but deeply traditional and indomitable John Bull. His crusty vigor also suggested the coat of mail of a new St. George, fronting the snorting dragon, Hitler ("that wicked...
...blitz failed to conquer Britain, but the Government was criticized for later defeats and for rank inefficiency in war production. But always the surging eloquence and parliamentary skill of Winston Churchill overwhelmed criticism. Always the streamlined John Bull, the 20th-Century St. George, could get a vote of confidence. And always the same chorus rose: the Government's faults were attributed to the stodgy or obstructionist Old School Ties around the Prime Minister, rather than to the Prime Minister himself...
...spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play's title seems less like a symbol of hope than the name of a newspaper. Too often, moreover, the war news is shunted...
...conferences with Soviet Ambassador Oumansky. In January 1941 Welles tipped off the Bolsheviks that the Nazis would invade Russia in June. Both Churchill and Roosevelt were convinced that Welles's tip was sound. Stalin was not. Davis & Lindley claim that Stalin was as completely surprised by the Nazi Blitz as Roosevelt and Churchill were later surprised by the Japanese foul at Pearl Harbor. Orator Churchill was so sure Hitler was going to attack Russia in June that for "two months" previously he rehearsed and tried out on friends the sonorous periods in which he later informed a breathless world...
...factories, her transportation system and the morale of her people. It had not yet reached the fury of a systematic 1,000-planes-a-night push against her 31 key cities (TIME, Sept. 7). Yet Germany was suffering vaster and more continuous blows than Britain took in the blitz of 1940's autumn, and she was taking them from instruments vastly improved in destructive power...