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...Smathers . . . complains of his early rising . . . the long hours and the uncertainty of his position. He emphasizes the dangers of his job and his lack of security, and then attempts to draw a comparison between his lot and that of the men in the armed services. However, there are a few things our misguided hero on the home front has overlooked...
Trouble at Fondouk. The Fondouk action afforded a sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges...
...Ninety-five percent of all the food consumed ... is rationed," and "even Government officials cannot control themselves at the sight of food." Concluded some observers: "The annual civilian consumption in Russia is less than the annual civilian waste in the United States," and "by comparison, even Germany - as late as 1939 -was a land of luxury." Correspondent Graebner believes that such self-sacrifice, added to the staggering losses at the front, is borne less because the dictatorship decrees that it must be than because of patriotism and popular faith in the national leadership. To those with whom he spoke, Socialism...
...Bolshevists are justly very proud of what they have accomplished in Russia during the past decade. Their pride of accomplishment has naturally been greatly increased by the prodigious achievements of their armies in comparison with the inability of the capitalist nations to open a second front on the continent of Europe...
...cinema role in an undisclosed movie was Marlene Dietrich's 18-year-old daughter Maria Sieber, whom a photographer caught with mother for the sake of comparison...