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...British it was utter, humiliating defeat. Tobruk, the same battle-scarred port that last year held out for eight months against Axis besiegers, succumbed to one day's attack. Tobruk fell quickly, squashily, to the planes, tanks and guns of Germany's Erwin Rommel. The Axis announced that it took 28,000 Allied prisoners in the garrison, including "several generals." This was indirectly confirmed by a British report which said that Axis shelling prevented any substantial rescue...
Department of Utter Confusion...
...experiences that almost maniac desire for activity that from now on will alternate continually with melancholia and depression." He tries to hang himself with his belt. The job is too unpleasant. He begins to feel the true weight of "utter, bleak silence. It is only in prisons that air is so deaf...
Stanley K. Leonard, czar of the manila envelopes, said last night that in order to avoid utter confusion, men whose names begin with A to K should register before one o'clock, and those whose names begin with L to Z should enroll between one and five o'clock. The remaining hours until eight will take care of the late-comers...
Although Tyrone Power gives the performance of his cinematic career as the embittered young deserter, it is not good enough. His handsome, unlined face contradicts the profound words he is asked to utter. He does not for a moment look as if he had either thought or lived them. This deficiency is partially offset by the slick performances of bit-players Merivale, Nigel Bruce, Alexander Knox, Gladys Cooper, etc. Their considerable assistance helps make This Above All an entertaining, occasionally inspiring picture which almost came...