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...months had Germans had such grim repetitive reminders of a deadly, radio-borne promise made to them last summer by burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, head of the R.A.F.'s Bombing Command: You have no chance. Soon we will be coming over every night, every day-rain, flood or snow-we and the Americans...
...There is need for more German troops in Russia." The voice, rasping in German loudspeakers last week, was the voice of Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, engineer officer and propagandist for the German High Command...
...Uncle Joe" was puzzled as his car rolled down the driveway. In the courtyard of his Chungking headquarters the entire staff of his China-Burma-India Command stood stiffly at attention. As Uncle Joe stepped out Colonel William ("Zamboanga Bill") Bergin stepped forward and shook his hand. "What is this, an execution?" Lieut. General Joe Stilwell muttered. In answer, Colonel Bergin read the President's citation: for bravery in leading and inspiring Chinese troops under fire in Burma last April. Then "Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief...
Sayre spent four months working out a usable basic Spanish and writing the script. He found that the average Mexican laborer has about 500 words at his command, a white-collar worker some 2,000. With some advice from Harvard's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong ("Basic English") Richards, he boiled the Spanish course down to a working vocabulary. This 13-week transcribed series is available to any radio station...
...Service are all Ensigns and have received their basic training and indoctrination at Smith College, a women's institution on the banks of Paradise Pond. Living at Radcliffe, they will nevertheless be but a part of the Naval Supply School based across the river, and will be under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, head of the School...