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...about how soon we can re-open the Berlin Bureau which Steve Laird headed for us before America got into the war. Laird had to leave Germany for Switzerland in June 1941 in order to telephone us from a neutral country the true facts about Rudolf Hess and the background of all the sensational events that led up to Hitler's attack on Russia...
...Background for Peace...
Whoever wrote the installment of Background for Peace appearing in your Sept. 13 issue should receive the thanks of the nation. Plain, clear, common sense about a matter of the highest importance both to this nation and the world was never more simply or persuasively expressed...
That was an interesting and enlightening Background for Peace. . . . But there was one thing about it that bothered me - the rather lukewarm and qualified nature of the praise bestowed on Ely Culbertson's World Federation Plan...
Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark of the Fifth Army sprawled on the dusty Italian earth. An artillery observer lay prone beside him at the forward observation post. The valley ahead rolled gently like background for a Raphael canvas, touched with hedge-rimmed farms and tiny rivulets under a deep blue sky. Far off, snug against a spiny, pine-covered ridge, rose the white and red buildings of a village on the hard road from Salerno to Naples. There the Germans were stubbornly but thinly entrenched. Allied shells whipped across the classic landscape, scuffed up geysers of smoke...