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Brigadier Lord Lovat, tall, tough, handsome leader of British Commando troops, was back in England last week, a bit bunged up from the Normandy fighting, and correspondents at last could tell the story of how Lovat and his men kept a promise on Dday...
Just before the invasion Lovat, 32-year-old veteran of Dieppe, the Lofotens and many a secret Commando raid, conferred with the commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
Sirs: TIME (May 8) inadvertently points up an impressive irony about our country. Slum-raised Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, who owes the country practically nothing, has fought with supreme resource and courage in order that a system of government may survive under which citizens like Sewell Avery, whose general aim is to keep citizens like the Kellys in their place, can defy that government in its own courts. This $64 angle is submitted for Hollywood's $25,000 story about the Kelly family, a movie for which I can hardly wait...
...have a fiührer complex about Mr. Hutchins . . . the best and wisest man I know. ... I think he is bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
...Britain's own expert is 32-year-old Sir Nelson King Johnson of the air Ministry. He and his staff were consutled for every Commando raid and for the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sir Nelson believes weather secrets are hidden in the upper air, uses a special balloon apparatus for readings up to 50,000 feet...