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...Harvard Radio Workshop will begin its 1942-43 program with a fantasy on the evacuation of Dunkirk by Milton Van Dyke '44, Workshop member. The play, "Take My Drum to England," will be the first of a series of indefinite length to be given every Wednesday at 9 o'clock on the Crimson Network. It will be given on November 4, a week from this Wednesday...
...shock of Dunkirk, the draft of 1940, the muddled rush to house the new army for its first winter, the first flow of the young men from their homes, schools, farms, jobs, into a peace time army whose reason for being was far from plain to many of its recruits?of all these things, and more, the army was born. There were the months when OHIO, chalked on latrine walls, meant "over the hill in October," and many of the young men cursed George Marshall, the President, the Congress which (by a House vote of 203-to-202) extended their...
Heroine and Marling daughter, Lettice Watson, is the widow of a naval officer killed at Dunkirk. Lettice lives in the Marling stables, which are fitted up with electricity, a drawing room, nurseries. She is courted by three youths: a poet, covered with long hair and conceit; an R.A.F. officer; an Army captain. This wooing is all the plot there...
...question is whether Americans like Paul McNutt, and American families like his, have the will to see a tough war through. Britain's will was prepared for the drafting of all war manpower by the shock of Dunkirk. In this war it may be that nations have the choice of steeling themselves to hard decisions in order to avoid disaster or being steeled when Dunkirks give them the willpower...
...Bulkeley. The men remembered the promise without enthusiasm. They knew that they and their six little ships were chiefly useful for gumming up the works of the Japanese invaders on Bataan. In their 70-by-20 foot, plywood speedboats, they expended all they had in "America's little Dunkirk." But MacArthur kept his promise, and they came back to tell about...