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...Chief of Staff, Major General Sir Francis de Guingand, and Bradley. The talks turned into a bitter, almost unending debate over whether to carry the attack forward on a broad or narrow front. The Allied Expeditionary Force was about to drive on into Germany right up to the Rhine. After bringing units and equipment back up to strength there, Eisenhower said, he would launch a "sustained and unremitting advance against the heart of the enemy country...
This initiates a complex series of musical beds, betrayals and farewells, all set in the idyllic countryside along the Rhine where Jules and Catherine live. This menage a trois is what set the Legion of Decency's teeth on edge, but it is easy to see the appeal of the world-weary romanticism that the film depicts. Trufaut's movie has been tremendously influential, and all sorts of directors have taken inspiration from it. There is a lovely scene where the party goes bicycle riding, and which Philip Kaufman later took up in "Henry and June." Anyone who has seen...
...course of his drama, Beaumarchais (well sung by baritone Hakan Hagegard) decides to enter the action -- don't ask how -- to enable his beloved to escape prison and flee to Philadelphia. The scheme depends on selling her diamond necklace, which changes hands roughly as often as the Rhine gold. In the end Marie decides to accept her grisly historical fate, though she does confess that she has fallen in love with Beaumarchais...
...country's revered peasant past. A world away is Geneva, severe and handsome, with a touch of francophone chic, an international city, where summits are held and diplomatic deals are made. Solid, comfortable Zurich is at once the banking center and, along with Basel, at the bend of the Rhine, the cultural heart for German speakers...
...Britain? When Defense Secretary Tom King announced last week that the British army will be reduced to its smallest fighting strength since 1830, the military reacted with anguished cries. The number of troops will shrink more than 40,000, to about 116,000, and the British Army of the Rhine will be halved. Twenty-two cavalry and infantry regiments -- many in existence for centuries -- will be forced to merge with old rivals...