Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlikely that anything on the subject has been written to excel Shakespeare's short study, in Henry V, of men stranded on the verge of death and disaster. The man who made this movie made it midway in England's most terrible war, within the shadows of Dunkirk. In appearance and in most of what they say, the three soldiers with whom Henry talks on the eve of Agincourt might just as well be soldiers of World War II. No film of that war has yet said what they say so honestly or so well...
...School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier on the Dunkirk beach recalled the brash bravery of the B.E.F. Commander: "Capless, his head cocked, he watched the dive bombers. Then he dashed toward a machine gun mounted on a tripod, and single-handed took them...
Married. Ernest Hemingway, 47, burly, lately bearded (but not shorn) author of burly, hirsute, he-man prose; and Mary Welsh, 38, only woman correspondent with the R.A.F. in France before Dunkirk, later TIME Inc. correspondent in London; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Havana...
...Exchange's new campaign to keep lambs from being shorn got unexpectedly efficient cooperation from the market itself. The day the ads appeared, stock prices fell 5½ points, the sharpest break since the British debacle at Dunkirk in 1940. By midweek the Dow-Jones industrial average had slipped to 192.38, wiping out the gains of two months. Cause of the break: stock buyers who had been betting that settlement of the steel strike would bring inflationary price raises had changed their minds...
...slogans did not take. Britons have had Dunkirk. They were tired of battles, tired of digging for victory, tired of their drab, tasteless meals. They understood that Britain had to contribute food to the needy in Europe (1½ million tons since the end of the war), money to UNRRA ($320 millions already given, $320 millions more promised). They did not understand why the Treasury could not have allotted to dried eggs the $80 millions it allowed last year for purchase of Hollywood films. (Angry housewives cried: "We don't want Frank Sinatra. We want food.") Still less...