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...Made to Pattern. For administering his vastly complicated domain, with its endless problems of supply, intelligence, defense against air raids and life among the unpredictable conquered, Gerd von Rundstedt was born and raised. Facing him and others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...
There was prophecy in this alignment, but its fulfillment was delayed. Rundstedt was like Bock and Leeb, but there were other variations from the Junker pattern. Broad-faced Brauchitsch truckled to Hitler, became Commander in Chief of the German Army in 1938. Jaunty, rakehell Keitel made compromises, became Chief of the Supreme Command. Haider became Chief of the General Staff...
...shibboleths in R.A.F. mess life, and sometimes they offend British sensibilities. At every stage of air operation, from training to combat, the R.A.F. and the Army Air Forces think and act differently. Now, within the tight confines of Britain, all these differences must be fitted into one operational pattern...
...Jekyll for something Mr. Hyde did. But either being thoroughly stumped or just plain having too much fun to follow the problem through, Hollywood spurns a last chance to be original and tacks on one of its favorite hail-hail-the-gang's-all-here endings. According to the pattern, the whole preceding thread of emphasis is thrown out and a complete tangle of underrated detail suddenly falls together with breath-taking rapidity that is a let-down to everyone but master-mind Powell, sufferer Lamar, and a fatherly French foreign minister...