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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bitterly the Italian High Command had to correct these reports. The "Terribili" were not marching eastward. The High Command did not stress the fact that they were running westward, farther and farther into Libya. The prisoners were not British, they were Italian-31,546 of them (so far counted), including 1,626 officers. It was not a Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British...
...historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...
...Crimson charges that "very few of the actual questions asked are reprinted." This is untrue since 11 out of the 12 poll questions were reported on. For the sake of the record, here are the correct figures. "This is not our fight," 16.8 per cent. "Let Britain save herself this time," 9.5 per cent. "A Nazi victory won't affect our position," 3 per cent. "I like the British and want to help them," 20 per cent. "A British victory is essential to our national defense," 37 per cent. The one result that we did not print, for reasons...
...scientific sample of public opinion," if it is correct, shows that almost half of the student body is in favor of going to war if necessary. 16.3 per cent are in favor of military aid to Britain immediately and another 31.7 per cent would be willing to go to war only if England were in imminent danger of defeat...
Qualified expert witness testified that Dr. Markert not only used correct procedures in the case but that both he and the surgeon were properly cautious. Dr. Markert was not charged or accused of being unqualified to administer the anesthesia under the circumstances. Statement by the prosecutor and the judge's charge to the jury show that the case hinged wholly on whether he was guilty of negligence or carelessness. The jury held that he was not and brought in a verdict of not guilty...