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...BRUTAL FRIENDSHIP (896 pp.)-F. W. Deakin-Harper...
...each other. In their dissimilar ways, each had a kind of affection for the other. But they rarely met, rarely agreed, and as the war drew to an end, they blamed each other for the defeat. In this scrupulously documented and vividly told history, Oxford Historian F. W. Deakin, who collaborated with Winston Churchill on his monumental war memoirs, shows how far-reaching the rift was, how it poisoned relations between the two countries from the top command to the soldiers in the field...
...Russian winter. They also gleefully filmed Italians fleeing from battle. Mussolini received a letter from a soldier at the front: "Among the officers of both higher and lower rank a general feeling of rancor and distrust against the Germans is generally predominant here." It was no coincidence, notes Deakin, that many Italians who had fought in Russia joined the partisans when they returned to Italy...
...Antony's is among the smallest and newest of Oxford Colleges. Established shortly after World War I, it restricts its membership to graduate students specializing in political science and modern history. Its Warlen--a friend, appropriately enough, of Churchill's,--is W. Deakin, whose reports on the Jugoslav partisans of the war helped substantially to convince the British to hit their support to Tito; its sub-Warden (a sort of Senior Tutor) is James Joll, the ruddy, fluent, enormously charming visiting lecturer who taught Franklin Ford's course on German history this Spring...
Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Deakin, 64, Socialist head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's largest labor union (1,300,000 members), onetime chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress and one of the Labor Party's chief anti-Bevanites; after collapsing while addressing a May Day rally; in Leicester, England. Anti-Communist Deakin played a leading part last week in averting a threatened strike of 65,000 British railworkers...