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...talked about the Commandos with their leader, Lord Louis Mountbatten-interviewed men who had been in the Commando raids at the Lofoten Islands and St. Nazaire-lunched with Winston Churchill-questioned Anthony Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps, Oliver Lyttelton and many others on the progress...
...Britons a-clamor for Continental action, Lord Louis personifies the second front. They know him as the chief of their savage specialists in hit-&-run invasion, the Commandos. Actually, he has a larger and more complex job: he is Chief of Combined Operations, directing not only the Commando troops themselves but the naval and air units which share the labor, glory and death of Commando raids...
Their first officers were largely drawn from the ultra-swank Household Brigade, whose regiments set much store on birth and money. This circumstance made ordinary Britons grumble and suspect that the Commandos were officered by undemocratic pantywaists. The lists of Commando officers did indeed include many a prewar playboy, many an old, famous and sometimes weary name. Among them were Author Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies, Scoop, Put Out More Flags), who had transferred from the Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters...
...meat. They must know how to stalk, unseen, in woods, fields, mountains. If a man is spotted on his first stalking practice, he is orally warned. On the second, a blank round is fired at him. On the third, a live bullet spats close by him. Said a onetime Commando officer now on duty in the U.S.: "It certainly teaches people quickly...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...