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...Dunkirk, N.Y., police said they caught Samuel Miller hiding in a parked panel truck, taking telescopic movies of a supermarket manager working the store's combination safe...
...social belles at Britain's last palace debutante presentation, Queen Elizabeth II, stunningly garbed in a pale pink satin frock embroidered in a design of roses, and Prince Philip happily returned to less arduous royal duties as they attended the world premiere of the British film Dunkirk at a London theater...
...Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays...
That the grim period from Dunkirk into the Battle of Britain brought out the most eccentric as well as the best qualities of the British is a major part of the thesis of Writer-Adventurer (Brazil, Tartary, etc.) Peter Fleming. The invasion-threatened British were often funny in the way in which a man, scrambling out of mortal danger, sometimes forgets his pants, and the Germans achieved heights of sinister absurdity. These facts, in focus with Fleming's sharp eye, make sprightly reading of what would otherwise be simply a well-organized and well-informed piece of contemporary narrative...
...French signed their armistice with Hitler, and even in the friendly U.S. at that time, one-third of George Gallup's opinion staters thought the British were licked. For some Nazis, it was a simple matter of crossing the Channel in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuees. The British, who knew the trick was one too many even for Napoleon, were slow to convince. Hitler thought the British would give up, and so it was not until July 16 that he issued Directive No. 16: "As England, in spite of the hopelessness of her military position...