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Near the southwestern end of the Allied line across Italy, the town of Cassino nestles at the base of holy, historic Mount Cassino. There, Byzantine conqueror Belisarius paused on his way to Rome in 536; the Benedictine Order was founded in 529.* Forbiddingly fortified by the Germans, Cassino now straddles the road to Rome chosen by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Last week, yard by yard, French, U.S. and Canadian troops advanced toward the ancient, strategic town...
Thine Own City. The great Byzantine general, Belisarius, more than once defended Rome against Teuton raids. To a barbarian chief he wrote a letter that is still timely...
Successively conquered by Justinian's great General Belisarius, by Don John of Austria, by Charles V of Spain, by Mohammedans, Turks and Barbary Coast pirates, Tunisia at last was grabbed by France in 1881 as the cornerstone of her burgeoning African empire. But not for her dates and olives have modern nations since sought Tunisia. Mussolini, yowling for the "return of Tunisia" (on the basis of a large Italian colony and a claim 1,500 years old), has wanted it to control the Mediterranean. Only 88 miles separate Tunisia from Sicily. A "second Gibraltar," it also has, in Bizerte...
...literary front, in a reflective piece for the newspapers, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, British Commander in Chief in India, chose as the six greatest generals of all time: Marlborough, Belisarius, Wellington, Frederick, Lee, Napoleon, in order. He picked no "greatest" war, but made plain a little of his feeling about this one. "Possibly my reflections may give others a rest from the present grim business," he concluded, "by reminding them of older and better wars." High aim of U.S. Army maneuvers in Tennessee (see p. 67) is the development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee...
...COUNT BELISARIUS-Robert Graves- Random House...