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...surprise attack in the western desert because of natural obstacles in the desert and because preparation of mechanized forces for a big offensive cannot be concealed." Two mornings later Sir Archibald Wavell called twelve crack war correspondents into his Cairo office and calmly announced: "Gentlemen, this morning at dawn our troops opened attack against Italian positions at Sidi Barrani." Then his grim mouth relaxed into a smile as he added: "It would be interesting to know whether any of you had any idea the attack started?" Most of these veteran journalists had been out in the desert for weeks, watching...
...crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered windows of private chalets...
...Home Fleet joined the party in the mists of an early dawn off Ostend. In a sector buzzing with Nazi bombing squadrons, in waters too narrow for maneuvering heavy ships, light cruisers and destroyers paraded past, leisurely shot up Ostend's docks and harbor works, made off for home unscarred...
...dawn one day, the Western Fleet swept unhesitatingly right to Genoa, in waters which ought to be Italian if any are. Without regard for enemy mines, submarines, airplanes or shore batteries, the ships lay there and pumped broadside after broadside into Italy's fourth city, her chief merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown...
Paul Bowles's music is a good deal more mature than this allegorical scheme, but it, too, is lacklustre. On the credit side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything that occurs on the stage. Red-haired Nancy Coleman is a lovely Liberty, especially in the cool blue satin nightgown of her sickroom period. John Beal manages quite a trick in playing Tom Smith without too strong a suggestion of Eagle Scoutism. Neither manages to breathe life into Mr. Barry...