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...viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate efforts of the U. S. to a non-partisan plane, where they could command the united efforts...
...Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army was the one which cracked worst at Caporetto but this is excused by his admirers on the ground that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred on him. He helped General Armado Diaz and the Allied rescue staff (including France's Weygand) reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October...
...troops are accompanied by bands, to give them rhythm, by which the High Command sets great store. When their band is out of earshot, men are taught to hum to themselves as they fight (a form of self-hypnosis also inculcated by the Germans...
...Middle East concentrated last week on Italy's Libyan and Eritrean bases, while South African bombers attacked in southern Ethiopia and Jubaland. Patrols of Lieut. General Henry Maitland Wilson's Egyptian command (40,000 strong) took two Italian forts and 200 askari prisoners on the Libyan border...
...ghostly dialogue paused. At the first leave-ship command, the sirens were sounded and the crew herded as many passengers as possible into lifeboats before the Washington was sunk by a torpedo. On the captain's orders, the ship's photographer clicked a record of the scene. In the chill dawn women and children began to pile into the boats. Faint light played over the flags painted on the Washington's sides, but the flag suspended between its funnels glowed under floodlights. Though ten minutes was not enough, there was no panic...