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Wives Donate Bend...
...Navy does not bend easily. But it is now up against the women. The Navy wants to enlist 70,000 women this year. Hereafter, said the Navy last week, relaxing one of its ironclad rules, WAVES, Coast Guard SPARS and Marine Reserves may marry anyone they choose. Hitherto, they had been forbidden to marry within their own branch of the service (i.e., a WAVE could marry a Coast Guardsman or a marine, but not a Navy...
...hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization must think in new terms -new terms as citizens, new terms...
North around Tunis and Bizerte was the Marshal's colleague, Colonel General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses...
...gone--today we have much more alarming doubts about living and working without the sixty-four around! We'll have to go looking for new people to tell our troubles to, to borrow (?) our cigarettes from, and to share our misgivings over what tomorrow may bring while we bend over today's laundry...