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Bats need no home during the lush summer nights when the air is full of edible insects. By day they hang in convenient roosts-trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 miles to find their old cave and sleep in it until spring...
...Armistice Day, the President made his annual pilgrimage to the chill white fastnesses of Arlington Cemetery. There, while World War I's old General John J. Pershing sat magnificently erect at his side, Franklin Roosevelt solemnly read a message to the nation: "God the father of all living watches over these hallowed graves and blesses the souls of those who rest here. May He keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which...
Hitler had one concrete assurance: Germany would fight the war to "unmitigated success" without the "slightest thought of compromise." But in his assurance he dropped a few words that may have sent a cold chill down the spines of the German people, who remember well and bitterly the end of the last war-when German generals appealed for peace while the Kaiser abandoned Germany to her fate. Said Hitler: "This Army is becoming more and more National-Socialist. . . . More and more differences are being eliminated. . . . In me [our enemies] have an adversary who does not even think of capitulation...
Last week more political breezes blew in from the West-farther West, this time-and to Democrats they were chill indeed. From Guadalcanal came grave news (see p. 30). Democrats had hoped for a battlefield victory in October; this looked like something else. Said one Democratic bigwig: "If we lose the Solomons, it is going to be terrible. The loss of the Solomons, if we do finally lose them, is going to set this country afire. Hell's fire, the people will...
...other combatant. In the Aleutians U.S. planes are operating over water, in cold and forbidding weather. In the Solomons operations are in stifling heat and drenching rains. In Australia and New Guinea a given aircraft in a single day may fly from subtropical temperatures to the chill of early spring. It is proof of the soundness of U.S. design and the versatility of American crews that operations...