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Whatever may be the wartime shortcomings of the United Nations, whatever their lacks in unity or decision, the heroism of the soldiers of democracy is beyond cavil, a record that glows like an endless string of pearls. For they have made World War II a time of gallantry, sacrifice, incredible toughness; of comradeship among all fighters for freedom without regard to race. In their spirit, Democracy has proven that in one respect at least it cannot be found wanting...
Among countless examples of heroism that were recorded last week not the least was that of black-skinned, black-toothed Sergeant Katue, of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, who turned up at a New Guinea base after stalking Japs through the jungles for 73 days and picking off 26 of them, including one in an orange tree...
...farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...
...free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama. Its moment in history transfigures it, restoring to subjects like young love, maternal pride, the sense of home, the heroism of war some of the luster that oceans of hokum have washed away. All the same Playwright Anderson has frequently brought to his story something as warm with life as a heart beat, yet kept it masculine with the kind of tough Army humor he once put into What Price Glory...
...heroism and loyalty are helpless to prevent the slow, inexorable killing of the pilots of Squadron 80. Quayle himself (one of two Squadron survivors after the fall of Greece) dies in action flying a Hurricane. His pregnant bride is held in Nazi-occupied Greece...