THE RED BERET
(Columbia-W arwick) [RE RED BERET claims to be based on the book by Hilary St. George Saunders, and sets out to tell the story of the Parachute Regiment, but that is a pure subterfuge. It is not much closer to its original than Prince Valiant is to Morte d’Arthur, being simply the story of Alan Ladd; an American masquerading as a €anadian, who joins the unit because hé is All Mixed Up Inside. His method of reorientating himself is to pick fights with all and sundry, to refuse promotion, and in general behave in a manner which any reasonable Cc.O. would regard as Prejudicial to Good Order, etc. That, of course, is in training camp. In action he’s a proper ball of fire. It’s doubtful if the Bruneval raid would have come off without him (how sadly my mind went back to School for Secrets!) The corporal brought it there, but Ladd carried on; | and the R.S.M. got his at Cape Bon, in the middle of a Nazi minefield. Even the C.O. was pinned down, but Ladd knew how to use a bazooka and blasted a path to safety. It’s the Flynn technique, of course, and if it paid off in Burma there’s no reason why it should be a dead loss in other theatres. But it’s not chauvinistic, I’m sure, to get a little tired of it after all these years
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 19
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235THE RED BERET New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 19
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