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School started again last fortnight in Dover, most dangerous spot in England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...
Because Dover still gets eight to ten siren warnings daily, the first lesson in 18 months was an air-raid drill: Teacher cried "Get in the cave," and pupils grabbed gas masks, cleared out in 30 seconds. At the second lesson they learned to dive under desks at the word "Shell...
Their officers had less pleasant things to think about. Before they left they had heard what was wrong with the Army-from the Army's severest critic and one of its best-informed: cave-eyed, earnest Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair. As he had the week before, he called the high-ranking officers of the Armies together, sat them down to listen. In the front row were the two Army commanders: bluff, burly Lieut. General Ben Lear of the Second, and stocky Lieut. General Walter Krueger of the Third. Next to them sat Lieut. General Delos Emmons, boss...
Specially recorded by the Film Service are numerous other selections from famous works read by their authors W. H. Audes reads sonnets from "In Time of War"; T. S. Eliot reads "Gerontion" and "The Hollow Men"; and Robert Hillyer reads "Overhead", "The Cave", and others...
What made them tired was reading through a varied array of compositions which included Beethoven's "Overture to "Egmont." Schnbert's "Unfinished" Symphony, and Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" Overture...