Word: sascha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yehudi Menuhin. 4. Sascha Guitry...
Digging for suggestions, he browsed through a copy of the Digest, came upon a condensation of Victory Through Air Power, the brash, controversial best-seller dashed off by Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky to advertise his passionate belief that the war can best be won by bombing planes of unprecedented size and range, wielded by an independent air command...
...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
When his picture has gone the rounds, Sascha de Seversky may find that his most telling points were negative ones; that people will be most impressed, not with what he says the U.S. can do in the air, but rather with what he insists that it can not do over land and sea routes. The film's one most valuable service may be to show millions of Americans, in the most graphic possible form, the true complexity of U.S. grand strategy, the tremendous difficulties of fighting a war all over the face of the earth...
...great Billy Mitchell were still alive, his answer would be "yes." But Billy Mitchell is dead, with his rank posthumously upped and most of his prophecies as bright as the multi-colored ribbons that swatched the breast of his tunic. But except for a few civilian followers such as "Sascha" Seversky and Al Williams, his disciples are mute. Even at this stage of World War II, it is not politic for men in uniform to make predictions...