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...Etta Shiber, a former Manhattan housewife, whose chief excitement in life used to be attending concerts, was changed by Dunkirk into a conspirator. She was tracked around Paris, caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo, and finally handed over to the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, Nazi spy and hairdresser extraordinary on the S.S. Enropa. Author Shibers crime: helping to smuggle British soldiers out of Occupied France. Paris-Underground* a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for October, is Mrs. Shiber's exciting story of how she did it. The book is avowedly...
...imagination) with which U.S. investors view the approach of peace. But the quick comeback might mean that U.S. investors are coming around to the British attitude, which seems to be a more realistic appraisal of the fruits of victory. The London market last week, as it has been since Dunkirk, was on the upgrade. While British capital looks eagerly ahead to the war's end, U.S. investors still fear a vast collapse of production...
...Sept. 3, 1943, four years to the day since Britain declared war; three years, two months since the last British soldier left Dunkirk; two years, four months, two days since the last British soldier left Greece; 56 days since the first British and American soldiers arrived in Sicily...
Escaping to England before and after Dunkirk, these haunted men, many of whom could not speak a word of English, wanted to join the British Army. A special company was formed for them. The horrors they had experienced did not make them easy to handle. The film tellingly suggests how the British worked to re-establish the refugees' self-confidence-persuading silent men to talk, preventing others from answering "Yes, sir" and "No, sir." But later, when rifles were distributed, fears generally subsided...
...there are in England and other invasion springboards, and no soldier can forget that the biggest test is yet to come. There is a growing impatience among Americans to 'cross the gap' and get it over with and return home. British Tommies are happy to have avenged Dunkirk, but now they want to see German homes in ruins, as homes in England were when many of them left. The French poilu is impatient to prove that he has a special vengeance; he is going to be a tough customer for the Boche. All of these men are looking...