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Over the air the Lambeth Walkers sounded as real as real life. So had their fellow Englishmen of the series' previous broadcasts: Lancashire millworkers, etc. On alternate weeks, CBS's Norman Corwin, who produces the U.S. end of the program, has tried to tell the British about the U.S. But he has told too much of the story himself. The result has been that the U.S. broadcasts have sounded like chapters out of Baedeker, while the English have sounded like themselves...
Ahead of him, behind him, was his army. They were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scots who had fought and been beaten in France; the Australian 9th Division (Morshead's Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...
...Germans slashed back at London in two raids. But the force was small, and the showing to Englishmen was not so impressive as the thundering eloquence of London's anti-aircraft defense, unleashed in full voice for the first time since it was refitted and strengthened months ago. Germany's weak reply again indicated that the Luftwaffe was not what it used...
...morale-engineers one was Norwegian, one a Dane, one a Canadian, the rest Englishmen out of reach of their own nation's draft laws. Among them: Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin. Last summer they were classified 1-A. They were facing induction in November when Brigadier General Ames T. Brown, New York Selective Service director, ordered the cases reopened after an MRA leader approached him with an introduction from Representative James W. Wadsworth of New York, co-author of Selective Service...
...Cripps. Long a worker within the British Labor Party and the wife of an ardent Crippsian (G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for North Lambeth), Author Strauss tries to show that the very lack of "finesse" and "political acumen" is what has made Cripps the hope of thousands of Englishmen. It is a position, she says, that he would lose only if "they came to suspect, even mistakenly, that he had lost his political naivete and learned the lessons of expediency, compromise and adaptability...