Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, as Winston Churchill said (see p. 26) thought the battle was reaching a "wearing-down stage" and the British generals evidently were content to let it do so. But not Rommel. He lined up his 88-mm. guns in ambush. With a light tank force and possibly with false radio orders transmitted to British tanks (said Churchill: "I do not know what actually happened"), he lured the British to slaughter. At the end of the day 230 out of 300 British tanks had been destroyed. The Battle of Libya was lost that afternoon...
...Nazis, of course, had the general at their mercy, but the general also held cards. The French people held him close to their hearts; Laval dared not turn him over to the Germans. Finally the Nazis had to content themselves with a promise by the general, who was in poor health anyway, that he would not interfere in Vichy-German affairs. Last week the general was living with his sister in Lyons...
...small child, this tale of a split home remains brutally objective and its technique is never really in keeping with the personality of the narrator. The good and the bad in the story are the strengths and weaknesses of Mailer's former efforts, for there are strong emotional content and a sharp realism which careful reading shows to be but a shell. Bruce Barton's ". . . And We'll Do It Again . . ." is a skillfully handled sketch of the mixed emotions of a group of selectees on their way to camp. While Andrew Glaze has contributed an unusual short short which...
...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...
There are serious flaws in the script, but Raphaelson writes clean-cut dialogue with some stimulating conversation between critic and playwright. Had he been content to omit the love angle and concentrate more heavily on the conflict between the two men, there would have been a better play...