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...Eighteen of the Fort marched the length of Copacabana's Avenida Atlantica to meet more than 2,000 loyal troops armed with machine guns and small cannon. The Eighteen took to the beach, dug trenches in the sand, made one of the bravest stands in the history of any army. One by one they were picked off-some killed outright, some desperately wounded. Octavio Corrêa was one of the first to die; his blue suit made him an easy mark...
...cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest, and occasionally almost as bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
...Italian Armies [last time] were required by their allies to assume tasks out of all proportion to their strength, and because they suffered reverses, which in the circumstances must have overcome even the bravest, they were stigmatized as poor fighters, or even as cowards...
...sounds and signs of fighting in the Artois trap died, observers knew that it was not because all the Allies had left with the last boats. Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds. Smothered under the converging German flood were the last brave thousands who died or were taken prisoner, and mountains of precious materiel. This week War Secretary Anthony Eden, speaking for the British alone, said that 80% were saved of the original B. E. F., which is now put at a low total...