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...ailing man of 82, it was a heroic performance. For a full 90 minutes last week, General Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain for the past 36 years, stood at attention on a gold-railed rostrum, taking the salute as 11,000 troops and "Forces of Public Order" paraded down Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana on the annual "Day of Victory" celebrating the final Falangist victory. Franco, unassisted, then descended from the dais, climbed into his huge, pre-World War II Rolls-Royce and, again standing, was slowly driven off to cries of "Franco! Franco! Franco...
Mosley worked hard at projecting the heroic image of himself. As the son of a wealthy Midlands family, he never lacked sumptuous props or staging. The fact that he was also a good-looking 6 ft. 2 in. did not hurt either. During World War I, he was a flyer and an infantry officer. He was a skillful amateur boxer, and later became a member of Britain's fencing team. Even as a Socialist and disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy...
...breed of wild Eastern suspense books. Plots and characters of a dozen or more titles all derive from the same headlines - during the fall of 1972 - when Black September terrorists murdered 1 1 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Villainous Palestinians, flinty Israeli secret police and slightly less heroic American and English spooks never seem to lack technical expertise, first-class plane fare or a large supply of plastic explosives and Kalashnikovs (the Russian submachine guns favored by thriller writers...
...Pits reopened the painful subject of French behavior during the German occupation. The national collapse of 1940 represented to most Frenchmen a devastating indictment of their government and society. Consequently, in the process of national reconstruction after the war, nationalist politicians sought to project an image of a heroic France united behind de Gaulle and the Resistance Ophuls attempted to show that this image was a self-serving myth, since the Resistance never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population, which for the most part collaborated actively or passively with the Vichy government and the Germans. Ophuls...
...supreme holiday of international Communism, yet not a word was uttered to congratulate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on their overwhelming victory. Among the placards carried by 100,000 Russian workers on their May 1 march, only one referred -obliquely-to the event: "Fraternal greetings to the heroic Vietnamese people," it read. The Communist Party daily Pravda was a nonchalant 36 hours late in reporting the news of Saigon's surrender. North Vietnamese diplomats assigned to Hanoi's embassy in Moscow had to seek out Western correspondents for details of their nation's triumph...