Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After every war, indeed after almost any period of high feeling, there is a time of reassessment. "The Desert Fox" is Twentieth Century Fox's contribution to this period. Its thesis is that of Desmond Young's book on General Erwin Rommel. That is, it tries to show that Rommel, a fine field general in any Army textbook, was at the same time a fine man who came to hate Hitler, one whose political naivete finally led to his suicide to save his wife...
Britain ordered her tough, desert-hardened Suez garrison to stand fast, and alerted reinforcements in Cyprus. The R.A.F. laid plans to airlift supplies to Suez in case of emergency. Would fighting break out in Egypt? Not unless "somebody else" starts it, said British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison...
...Desert Fox brings in James Mason with a glorification of German General Erwin Rommel. At the Paramount and Fenway...
Based on the bestselling biography by Britain's Desmond Young (TIME, Jan. 22) and reflecting Author Young's same reluctant admiration for the enemy, The Desert Fox opens in North Africa with the German disaster at El Alamein. Rommel flies back to Germany to recover from an attack of jaundice and brood on Hitler's failure to keep the Afrika Korps adequately supplied. While in this mood, Rommel is sounded out by one of the ringleaders in a conspiracy against Hitler...
...Attu, the desert-trained U.S. soldiers showed little dash, though outnumbering the suicidal Japanese more than four to one. Off Kiska, a naval task force wasted more than 1,000 rounds of 14-and 8-inch shells, shooting at phantoms on their radar screens; after that, Admiral Kinkaid launched an invasion by 34,426 troops, only to find that the enemy had pulled stakes and cleared out 18 days earlier. After the trigger-happy U.S. soldiers landed in the Kiska fog, they began shooting at each other, killing 25 and wounding...