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...Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
...more clearly . . . move more rapidly and decisively. . . ." > "It would seem clear that the way to defeat an enemy is to gain a superiority in arms and equipment over him. The fact is that the Army and Navy have not yet said what this country needs if it is to attain that superiority. . . . The Army has consistently said that it could not plan for what equipment it might need because it does not know where or whom it may have to fight. ... In the world of today . . . the Army certainly knows who our potential enemies are [and] should know reasonably well...
...those Juniors who did not become 21 last year, 389 will attain their majority this year, and only 111 will...
...reincarnation of George Washington, Mrs. Ballard is Martha Washington, and their son is Lafayette. The basic pattern behind all this is a conviction that the human mind, in order to reach Heaven, must achieve a state of absolute purity, and that one lifetime is not sufficient to attain this. Therefore it is being constantly reincarnation until it arrives at the pure state. Last year Ballard (whom his followers refer to as The Master), becoming absolutely pure, went bodily to Heaven...
...celebrate the usual elaborate Easter Mass in St. Peter's, ending with a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world." To 3,000 pilgrims the Holy Father expressed his hope "that the nations in conflict today may as soon as possible sheathe their swords and attain a sure peace based on justice...