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...language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms is ... sheer political buncombe. . . . We should put a limit on our total postwar aid, both in time and in dollars . . . postwar aid should be restricted to whatever nations took certain elementary steps in their own behalf." But underlying these specific proposals...
...Japs are pinned on and around a nameless little peninsula that sticks out into Chichagof Harbor - an area from three to seven thousand yards deep and maybe four thousand yards wide. The battle now is a matter of yards...
...ridge cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
Over the marshy coastal plain of the Taman Peninsula rumbled hundreds of Soviet tanks and guns, perhaps 150,000 men. They cracked through Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein's defenses, pushed the Germans slowly back toward the narrow Kerch Strait, separating the Crimea from the Caucasus. Berlin radio claimed 61 Russian tanks knocked out one day, 59 the next, but admitted retreat: "In view of continuous Soviet attacks, it proved necessary to adopt a particularly elastic warfare...
Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...