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They would and did, and British intelligence pulled off what was probably the major espionage coup of World War II. Based on the 1954 book by Ewen Montagu (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), who masterminded the actual hoax, the film is largely faithful to its engrossing true story. Its chief flaw is some romantic embroidery concerning Gloria Grahame, who is done a bad turn both by the scriptwriter and the makeup man (she often looks as if she had been doused in oil for a Channel swim). An extra helping of thrills was also tacked on to make the Nazis seem...
...give her as an outpatient, but not enough to require admission to the full-time inpatient hospital. Since she could stay with relatives in Montreal, she was an ideal subject for the in-between type of care offered by the Allan's day hospital, founded by Director D. Ewen Cameron in 1946, and first of its kind in North America...
...censorship has nothing to do with national security. It is governed by consideration of Republican security. Thus after Wednesday's conference, Hagerty deleted 11 of the 27 questions-and-answers before letting the show go on the road. For example, when asked about his delay in reappointment of Ewen Clague as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, [the President] confessed he had never heard of the fellow. His responses to questions about the Ladejinsky muddle and ex-Senator Cain's criticism of the security program were among other deleted matters. Thus, what TV and radio were permitted to transmit...
...NEVER WAS, by Ewen Montagu, was one of the "best single stories to come out of World War II, a grisly account of how the German command was given a wrong steer on the Sicilian invasion by phony papers taken from a uniformed corpse prepared by British intelligence and washed ashore in Spain...
...Never Was, by Ewen Montagu. How British intelligence deceived the Germans about the invasion of Sicily by furnishing them a corpse whose pockets were stuffed with false war plans (TIME...