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...Allied armies called them "displaced persons" or D.P.s, tried only to get them out of the way. A few officers hurriedly detailed, a few doctors and nurses scrounged supply and transport for them as best they could. Nobody had been prepared for this handicap of unexpectedly rapid conquest. In the emergency the army built compounds or used former German camps to house the hordes. One UNRRA team was on the scene, a few more were expected-but the teams had neither food nor transport...
...first moves in both German and Jap schemes of conquest was to destroy free men's ideas by destroying their books. In 1938, while the Nazis were systematically looting some 400 libraries in Czechoslovakia, the Japs deliberately dropped 50 bombs on China's National Hunan University in Changsha. The National Tsinghua University at Peiping lost many precious books and manuscripts, some irreplaceable...
...strictly unofficial estimate is that the conquest of Iwo Jima will take 13 days, and that casualties will be slightly less than on Saipan [3,417 killed and missing, 13,054 wounded...
...city stretches, fortifications block the streets and byways. When I drove from Berlin it took me 90 minutes to travel six miles because the barricades are so thick it is difficult to pass them. . . . If everything goes 'according to plan,' one may predict Berlin's conquest will require six to eight weeks...
...combined F-G club from the NROTC was yesterday's victim, succumbing to a 28 to 23 licking, while Baker led Standish in Friday's 31 to 29 conquest of Lowell. The Bellboy outfit, runner-up in the first tournament, has failed to win in two starts, and now resides in the league's cellar...