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Richard Barthelmess' daughter, Mary, Leopold Stokowski's daughter, Sonya, Clive Brook's daughter, Faith, Producer Dwight Deere Wiman's daughter, Nancy, Writer Stephen Morehouse Avery's daughter, Phyllis, all played schoolgirl roles in a new Broadway show, Letters to Lucerne (see p. 47), and proved the brightest spot...
Rifle. Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, 30-year-old dairy farmer mashed a German force lodged in a schoolhouse by pitching in a grenade. Later he penetrated German lines, killed a mortar crew of four, continued stalking snipers who harassed the British withdrawal until he had 130 in the bag. Sergeant Hulme said last week he got his stalking experience on his farm, tracking a cow that would not turn up at milking time...
...were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants, electric & gas plants, hotels, public works, schools and hospitals. Mr. Matsuoka's role was something like Japan's Clive of India...
Main part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working lass. They meet, spar, land in a haystack, any their uneasy affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence...
Height of the debate is a furious 39-page chapter in which Clive explains at biographical length just why he no longer proposes to risk his life for the upper classes. His arguments, neither politically rigid nor in any sense pacifist, are extraordinarily hot stuff to serve up in wartime. He does not persist in his desertion; but his change of heart is not so solidly developed as his anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart...