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...Jean Cocteau (Enfants Terribles, Le Boeuf sur le Toit), who early in World War II considered it the duty of a writer "to make himself . . . into the form of a zero and to pass that ring over the finger of France," was still pretty much a zero...
...Greek treach ery in being all mobilized and ready in numbers far greater than Italy could get to the front.* The last part of this lame story is obviously untrue, but it may be that behind the beard of many an "Al banian" who incited his comrades' sur render or rebellion grinned the sly face of a British Intelligence operative. But the fact remains that Italy threw into the fight, at the outset, ten full divisions numbering, with supply and labor troops, over 200,000 men, to which two more divisions were added after the going got rough. These...
Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader...
...French Talking Films Committee presents today at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock in the Geographical Institute "Double Crime Sur La Ligne Maginot" and a French Movietone newsreel of "Le Quatorze Juillet...
...Double Crime sur la Ligne Maginot" will be the title of the film to be presented by the French Talking Flims Committee next Thursday and Friday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...