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Britain's reaction to a wave of anti-British criticism in the U.S. was both sharp and serious last week. Britons have been slow to anger at what they consider misinterpretation of Empire policy, but this time...
...soldier's anger at the commentator's attempt to make a show out of war is not an isolated incident. It is virtually a daily occurrence on every American fighting front. Soldiers have huddled in foxholes under heavy aerial bombardment while their radios told them that U.S. forces had complete control of the air over that sector. They have come out of action, blind with weariness, just in time to get a cheerful little radio earful about what they had just been through...
Public reaction to the Storni letter and its answer was divided. As the wording of the U.S. note sank in, extremely nationalistic Argentines grew hot with anger. Said one young hothead: "To hell with the U.S. We're looking toward Europe for now and after the war." Said one whose head was much cooler: "Don't think me unpatriotic, but the Government was asking...
From the Sea of Azov northward, crackling flames licked the tortured face of Russia. In anger and frustration the retreating Wehrmacht was setting to the torch the villages and towns it could no longer hold. And as the fiery line moved to the west, it traced, as nothing else could, the path of the Nazi flight...
...Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with disgust, some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown in the slow glance with which a miner glances behind him for pursuers at a secret meeting in the hills; powerless loathing is shown in the slow movement with which a housewife pulls down...