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...painful business for an enemy holding undermanned positions. In the east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank free for unlimited movement...
...Bruno, the saintly Anglo-Italian mystic, was making a final effort to tear the dying Eustace from a "sepulcher . . . built of . . . sloths and sensualities...
...confused with Anglo-American-Russian discussions on surrender terms now being held in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Japanese attitude toward other nations, adds Gorer, strongly reflects certain family attitudes-they divide all societies into male and female and act accordingly. In the 19th Century, when they were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline...
...Luck, Again. On the sunny after noon of June 1, the Anglo-American Air Force staked off a natural landing field for transport planes to take some 40 of us Allies to Italy. But on the following morn ing, the din of the fighting came closer, German stray shells dropped into the val ley, and we picked another natural field for June 2. No luck, again. Just as the tightlipped, bomb-scarred squadron leader was measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks...