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...German break-through this week was as extensive as the Nazis claimed, there was only one substantial Soviet hope left: the classic scorched earth. How well was it working last week...
...Classic definition of the Western Hemisphere was a line drawn by Pope Alexander VI. confirmed in 1494 by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The line ran from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
...symbol of Longstreet on Seminary Ridge was by a sort of pathetic fallacy a neat lesson for the U.S. in 1941. Whether or not he was right by the book, he was, at Gettysburg, a classic American figure of the cost of delay...
Russia is a classic battleground. As Adolf Hitler's drive passed its initial phase last week, the new conqueror showed by the routes he chose and the techniques he used that he had studied hard the hard lessons of previous incursions...
...Alamo (Ray Noble; Columbia). Post-World War I classic played by Britain's No. 1 dance band in its slickest and most satisfying pre-War II style...