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...true. Decorations for military prowess and valor go back to history's dawn...
...luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
...gloomy Jihlava fortress prison last week broke armed legionnaires of the green-shirted, Fascist, anti-Semitic Iron Guard. From the prison cells they dragged 64 Carolists, lined them up in front of a long trench from whose top they had just ripped a concrete slab. In the frosty dawn they opened fire, watched the bodies crumple to earth...
...through which the scattered Italian Eleventh Army last week fought rear-guard actions in its withdrawal up to the line from Valona to Elbasan. Next major Greek objective was the Italians' southwestern base, Argirocastro, defended by an Italian "battalion of death" fresh from Modena. The Greeks, attacking before dawn after nocturnal artillery barrages, smashed their way by grenade and bayonet up the eastern wall of Argirocastro's valley. This week, on the central front, the Greeks claimed the capture of 5,000 prisoners in a major rout...
...Brest to slip across the Channel by night, hunting British sea traffic creeping along the island's south coast. R. N.'s 5th Destroyer Flotilla, commanded by King George's cousin, Captain The Lord Louis Mountbatten, in the brand-new Javelin, fell upon three raiders before dawn, drove them off with angry shellfire. As they lit out for Brest, the Germans loosed a flight of torpedoes, one of which caught the Javelin. She had to be nursed to port while R. A. F. fighters circled out from the headlands and shot down three Nazi bombers sent...