Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...
...about simple folk, this one has only the very transient virtue of being in fashion. It was a mistake to waste, on such a story, the brusque, noble backgrounds (the Scottish island of Skye) and the honest abilities of Director David MacDonald, who had the controlling hand in making Desert Victory, one of the first really excellent war documentaries...
Handsome Captain Roy Alexander Farran had often been close to death. The son of an Irishman who had served in India. he went to Sandhurst and became one of the heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked...
...middle of the troubled desert that is Europe today, a scene like a mirage confronts the traveler thirsty for freedom, hope and a decent glass of beer. An hour and a half by plane from pinched and drawn London, a day by train from harrowed, hungry Berlin, he suddenly finds freedom, hope and a very decent glass of rich, light beer-the biggest glass of beer in Europe...
That realism just suited the Wild West he wanted to paint: the lurid desert sunsets, the cowboys and Indians, bucking broncs and buffaloes. Leigh roamed the vast raw country on horseback, turned east with a firsthand knowledge second only to Frederic Remington's. "Those tired old nags at the rodeo," he says chuckling into his snowy cavalry mustache, "don't know the first thing about bucking." Invited on two scientific expeditions to Africa, Leigh sketched constantly and confidently, came back to paint a series of vivid panoramas for the New York Museum of Natural History's African...