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...force of Indian Gurkhas, which had fought to the summit of Hangman's Hill, held it but were isolated. They got supplies only from planes that came over daily to drop parachutes and canisters with food and ammunition...
...Shore Patrol's efficiency is not Navy-bred. It was brought in with 300 tough, intelligent, hand-picked policemen, including four attorneys, Maryland's former hangman, New York patrolmen, detectives and constables, and highway cops from eastern and southern states. Fifteen of the 25 members of the Negro division are college graduates...
...France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth." In 1926 he was allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized: "I am still pro-Chinese and therefore pro-Japanese." As World War II approached, he demanded that peace-planless European governments resign before Tibetan Buddhist "supreme masters" were compelled to chastise them with secret "forces and powers...
...Silent Village, produced by Humphrey Jennings, is a reenactment by Welsh miners of the story of Lidice, the Czech mining village whose male population was executed by the Nazis, in revenge for the killing of "Hangman" Heydrich. Out of all the uneasy efforts to commemorate that grim tragedy, The Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with...
...killing of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich by the Czecho-Slovakian underground is the springboard from which Hangmen's characters take their dives. These include a shrewd Gestapo inspector (Alexander Granach) who makes it very tough for Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom...