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...last 30 years, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Harris has progressed from attacking Iraqi and Indian tribes men in a bailing-wire kite to crumpling the huge Nazi war machine with his powerful, purring Bomber Command...
Fortnight ago, in one of the first books to be published by one of Britain's service chiefs (Bomber Offensive; Collins, Lon don), the pink-mustached, apoplectic "Bomber" flew back over his career, then scattered some incendiaries closer to home...
Roared angry Sir Arthur, the strategy required to defeat the Germans was minuscule compared to the strategy required at home to allow him to beat the Germans. With few kindly words for anyone (exceptions: Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal), he rates the enemies of Bomber Command as: 1) the Royal Navy; 2) the British Army; 3) the German air force; 4) British civil service; 5) the politicians. After the Air Ministry under Sir Archibald Sinclair, "who went cap in hand to the other services," came the German Army and Sweden...
...were in a hurry. Foreign Minister Molotov ("notably calm himself, he hates to see other people get excited") posed for 22 minutes. Former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...
...every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits to a tragic disintegration which Chaplin himself hardly ever surpassed. The peasant's face, his suddenly unfamiliar country and the roar of the rickety bomber, throughout this beautifully filmed scene, combine to make a heart-tearing embodiment of man's predicament and man's hope...