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...successor, Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, to step into the shoes of Premier Teleki. Budapest called Premier Bardossy "another tightrope walker"-meaning no offense-but with Germany riding herd in Hungary, there was no more tightrope to walk. Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations this week and prepared to bomb German troop concentrations in Hungary, a process already begun in Rumania and Bulgaria...
Correspondent Whitaker thinks Britain could have forced a separate peace if it had been able to bomb Italy heavily enough. But Britain did not have the air power and Hitler moved too quickly. The Germans already bossed the Italian railways. "Suddenly, without warning, 122 major train services in Italy were suspended. In the eight weeks beginning at the joyous Christmas season those trains were devoted to the task of hauling German troops and German equipment into Italy. The conquest was swift and complete...
...Lord, what a row! Machine guns and bombs and planes, ours and Hitler's. It's our night tonight, all right. I am now lying under the table. We have just had an incendiary bomb in the yard. My hand is shaking...
...been brought on by the war. The Woolfs have spent most of World War II in an isolated cottage, Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...
...sinking of a crowded Nazi troop transport. Front-Line Girl is the story of Sonia Straw, one of the first three women to receive the George Medal for civilian gallantry. "Although she had seen nothing more bloody than a cut finger in her 19 years" Sonia treated bomb victims for everything from shrapnel wounds to shell shock. Most blood-tingling are the restrained accounts of fights and bombings by British airmen whose anonymity the R. A. F. guards unless they are killed. Spirit of the British fliers is summed up by one who said: "When you're going into...