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...film's heroes, unmistakably, are American Engineer George Peppard and Dutch Engineer Tom Courtenay, both smuggled into Germany with false papers to volunteer for work at a secret underground rocket center. Courtenay runs afoul of the Gestapo while Peppard struggles with cumbersome explanations as to why everyone can safely speak English. He gets help from Innkeeper Lilli Palmer, spends an edgy night with Sophia Loren because he happens to be impersonating her dead husband. Loren's brief role seems little more than a favor to her real-life husband, Carlo Ponti, who is Crossbow's producer...
Purim Eve. Eshkol could hardly expect unanimous agreement. Right-wing Nationalist Opposition Leader Menahem Beigin cried: "Before you decide on relations with Germany, remember that the millions of Germans who were the Nazis' Hitler Jugend, members of the Gestapo and the SS, will be represented by a German ambassador in Israel with a German flag and with Deutschland über Alles." When Deputy Premier Abba Eban suggested that the hymn could be played in Israel without offense since it was written by a German liberal,* he was hooted down...
...manage to wade through the extravagant language of the first page of this news column (and through a proof reading job that would make even a CRIMSON subscribe gag), will find a section headlined "Harvard and the FBI." "Most colleges," the writer declares, "find it sufficient to help Gestapo-like organizations behind the scenes...discreetly turning over rosters of student organizations, evaluations of students by their teachers, or even psychological information concerning a particular malcontent. Harvard, as the most noble institution of the country, doesn't stop there...
...massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held a Paris meeting of the 16 most important leaders of the underground, who elected him president. But in June 1943, Moulin was captured near Lyon by the Gestapo, and a few weeks later he was dead of torture-without having revealed anything he knew about the Resistance to the Nazis...
With an emotionalism that sounds slightly too rich in any language but French, Malraux noted that when Moulin was seized by the Gestapo, "the destiny of the Resistance depended upon the courage of this man. And here today in France triumphant we have the victory of this silence so terribly paid for." Dramatically addressing the dead Moulin, Malraux cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen...