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...Murmansk there was no tea. Butter and milk were only for children and for the sick. There were 1,000 wounded Englishmen in the hospital. They got milk. The men & women in Murmansk were lucky to get bread...
Through this misguided effort to effect Union Now by means of a boys' book, Mickey Rooney romps, yawps, mugs and clowns at such characteristic par that those fleecing moments when he is in repose have the surprise value of a Second Coming. Ian Hunter and Freddie Bartholomew, the Englishmen most painfully implicated, are more polite about it than there is any reason to expect of them. Tim's sister, Juanita Quigley, a fat little colleen with remarkable eyes, will bear watching...
...consequences of Allied defeat in the desert, begged for American men and American equipment, dramatized the vague Libyan-Egyptian front within an inch of his listeners' lives. Announced he in a first broadcast: "I'm going up to the desert where other people are fighting my battle-Englishmen and Indians and South Africans and New Zealanders. Let us know when you're coming, Americans. We'll bake a cake...
...brush with the Gestapo nearly ends the Piper's tour, but, at least in Hollywood, Englishmen like Woolley always win through. His children's crusade, scripted by Producer Nunnally Johnson from Nevil Shute's novel of the same name, is too episodic for all-out drama, but it is a mellow, amusing, often moving excursion...
...keep the Japs in the south, at the river mouths. In the spring, the south is a grey, heat-beaten land, where only the rivers are cool and even the wide rice paddies gape with cracks in the baking earth. It is a time when prudent men, fools, even Englishmen stay out of the midday sun. But the Japs fought in the sun, and drove the British steadily up the Irrawaddy and Sittang valleys. Then the Chinese came down from the north...