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...Deputies wanted to know when the U.S. would get out. Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha soothed its chafed nationalism with a sweeping challenge : "Foreign airfields must be delivered to us or they must not exist in Egypt." Behind his bravado was the Premier's knowledge that a joint Anglo-Egyptian company was in the making to operate Egypt's airfields after the war. With well-timed tact the British Government had sent King Farouk his handsomest birthday gift: a twin-engined, air-conditioned cabin plane from the Royal Air Force...
...Morley and Britain's critic-historian (and authority on U.S. matters), Denis Brogan, with a partner apiece, have pitched "stumpers" at each other by short wave. The questions are designed to determine "who knows most about the other's country." The show's aim: to promote Anglo-American understanding with geniality instead of gags, and without benefit of cash awards...
...courage and dignity before his brutal judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good about her that, on his return to England, he thinks...
These things are symptoms of indecision and weakness. So are Anglo-American differences over Italy and Greece and the recognition of one Polish Government by Britain and the U.S. and of another by Russia. The enemy is doing everything possible to exploit this indecision and weakness...
...weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian Government and the Anglo-American masters...