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Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstdngl, onetime court pianist to Adolf Hitler, was about to be returned to Germany, much against his wishes. In British and American hands through most of the war-and often rumored to be helping the Allies against the Fatherland-he was now in England, had no taste for facing "German underground fanatics" back home...
Through the Panama Canal last week steamed 48 heroic ships of the U.S. fleet carrying 57,000 veterans of the Pacific war-and one historic metal table...
...brigadier he serves quietly and creditably through the First World War-and catches sight of a nurse (Deborah Kerr again) who is the spit & image of the young woman whose loss in Berlin confirmed him in bachelorhood. After the war he marries her. Together, in a British prisoner-of-war camp, they seek out and are coldly rebuffed by Candy's old friend, the Prussian officer. Candy's young wife dies; and the walls of his home, through the years, grow ever more thickly studded with the big-game victims of his soldierly loneliness...
This was a big fight-one of the biggest of all the Washington battles of the war-and one which it was important that U.S. citizens should understand...
...Star-Spangled Banner . . . this ponderous piece . . . was written in celebration of a minor engagement in an inconsequential war-and a war, moreover, against our present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...