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...staunch, God-fearing people of the countryside wrote a letter to Harry Truman. Then they turned elsewhere. A hundred of them trooped into the church, prayed for Bobby Colby and spoke the 40th Psalm in unison: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about. . . . They are more than the hairs of my head. . . . O Lord, make haste to help...
Canny Premier Nygaardsvold at once announced his Cabinet's resignation, to take effect when King Haakon returned on June 7, fifth anniversary of the King's flight to Britain, 40th anniversary of the birth of modern Norway...
Units of Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on the west coast of Negros, fourth largest of the islands. One column drove northeast to capture the capital, Bacolod, another moved to a junction with Filipino guerrillas...
...Celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's Day, with a family luncheon. Members of the family present: wife Eleanor, daughter Anna, grandson Johnny Boettiger...
General Douglas MacArthur's troops were getting on with the trying job of reclaiming the Philippines. This week 55-year-old Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...