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Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital British supply lines strung across the South Atlantic. The worried Allies sent out ten heavy vessels to hunt her down and destroy her, and on the morning of December 13, 1939, three of them--the cruisers Ajax, Achilles, and Exeter--succeeded in their task. After a sharp engagement that lasted an hour and a half and during which Exeter was crippled, the English task force...
...incident marks one of the few victories for the English during the dismal opening months of the war, and it makes an exciting story. Unfortunately, the new English film which describes the death of the Graf Spee fritters away most of the excitement. It is an unfocused, chaotic motion picture which makes clear only that the German ship sank...
Just like any other movie, a war picture must, if it is to be dramatically effective, tell the story of men, not just of ships. The obvious figure around which The Pursuit of the Graf Spee should have been built is that of Captain Langsdorff, whom Churchill himself described as "a high-class person." But the screen play of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger scarcely shows what happens on the German warship during the fateful engagement, and does not mention the captain's suicide at all. A potentially tragic figure thus never becomes even really interesting...
Herter's other activities included active participation in several clubs. He was President of the Signet Society and Vice President of the Signet Society and Vice President and Librarian of the Spee Club...
Unfortunately, the efficient examinations are not enough to overcome the physical disadvantages of the Hygiene Building. The University acquired the structure in 1931 from the old Spee Club which had partially burned. But new paint could not enlarge the rooms or straighten the twisting stairs...