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...dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by the Truman administration was a disastrous blow to the prestige of American foreign policy and to the fate of the Far East," Colonel Lawrence Bunker '26, MacArthur's chief aide in the Korean conflict, said last night...
...speech sponsored by the Young Republican Club, Bunker said that when Truman dismissed MacArthur he was playing right into the Communists' hands. "The number one task of the Chinese Reds," the former aide said, "was to deface MacArthur at all costs. Truman simply did it for them...
...cold concrete of the great bunker, the whited sepulcher of National Socialism, the moviegoer has the vivid sensation, for most of two hours, that he is buried alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped...
...noncoms drink their beer and sing their sentimental songs. The generals have a little champagne. A young captain (Oskar Werner) rages to a brother officer: "Why does he surround himself with slimy yes men?" Eva's brother-in-law pleads with her for a pass to leave the bunker: "I can be loyal in Bavaria...
...power of this picture is the power of the nightmare. The spectator is locked in the sinister bunker like Germany in its obsession, and the end is less an exit than a cure. Actor Skoda, for all the impacted passion of his playing, never really gets the number of the beast, but he manages to suggest both paranoia and genius, and he expounds the lesson of Nazi Germany as shockingly sometimes as if he had borne the head of the dictator through the theater on a pole...