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...Desert Fox (20th Century-Fox), a sympathetic film study of the Afrika Korps' General Erwin Rommel, will surprise those moviegoers who have come to accept all Hollywood Nazis as guttural, sadistic villains. Rommel, as played by James Mason, speaks flawless English, is kind to his troops, makes a generous foe and a faithful friend...
Based on the bestselling biography by Britain's Desmond Young (TIME, Jan. 22) and reflecting Author Young's same reluctant admiration for the enemy, The Desert Fox opens in North Africa with the German disaster at El Alamein. Rommel flies back to Germany to recover from an attack of jaundice and brood on Hitler's failure to keep the Afrika Korps adequately supplied. While in this mood, Rommel is sounded out by one of the ringleaders in a conspiracy against Hitler...
...hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support the democratic German state, shun party politics, uphold the military virtues of bravery and comradeship...
Friend with Light Bulbs. One incident, friends agree, shook the young King badly and may have helped change his course from unquestioning friendship for the West. In February 1942, when Rommel was within a few hours' tank ride of Alexandria, an Egyptian cabinet crisis developed, and it appeared that the King might name a pro-Axis Prime Minister. The British asked the King to name Nahas Pasha, who was friendly to the allies. Farouk, then at outs with Nahas, refused. Obviously, the British had to do something, but some Britons in Cairo now be lieve that the manner...
Iran and Iraq. The British "desert rats" fought Rommel for two years to defend it. Into this area the British have now packed 35,000 to 40,000 troops and airmen, immense supply depots, airfields, excellent antiaircraft defenses. From British Middle East headquarters in the zone, empire lifelines go out to bases like Malta in the Mediterranean, Nairobi in East Africa, Habbaniya in Iraq...