Word: thompson
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...Thompson reasons this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a master propagandist, says Thompson, Churchill removed the able but colorless General Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle...
CHURCHILL AND THE MONTGOMERY MYTH by R. W. Thompson. 276 pages. Evans...
Churchill hunting is in season. Rolf Hochhuth's play Soldiers accused Winnie of conniving to kill off a troublesome ally, and of provoking air raids on Britain so that he could retaliate with mass bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...
...hero. The British propaganda mills unquesionably did work overtime to glorify Monty. It is equally true that he may have curried fame too eagerly. But it is a well-documented fact that Churchill had for months vainly implored Auchinleck again and again to attack Rommel. More importantly-and unforgivably-Thompson fails to emphasize that, ailing or not, Rommel did live up to his reputation by the brilliant way he feinted and eluded British attacks...
...Different." At Swarthmore College, which rejected four out of every five students who applied for admission, one of the 450 accepted was a youth with average grades who spent last summer driving a Jeep across the U.S. and sleeping in jails. "That takes maturity," comments Douglas Thompson, the school's assistant dean of admissions. "Swarthmore looks well beyond mere grades for qualities of uniqueness, which usually come across in interviews or in the essay that Swarthmore's application requires. We want a boy with something that tells us: 'Hello, I'm different...