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...made for war and women for warriors' pleasures. To a world whose capacity for indignation too rapidly becomes fatigued, a letter from one of these girls, published last week,* came as a blazing reminder of the sufferings of a people which barbarism has always attempted to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 93 Jewish Girls | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...main object of the Allies was to destroy Axis ports of entry along the Mediterranean. They attacked from the east as well as the west. As long ago as the middle of December, the Allied High Command decided that the Germans intended to make their last stand for North Africa in Tunisia. Allied strategists believed that Rommel would continue to retreat, delaying the British Eighth Army all he could, but keeping his battered troops intact. In Tunisia he would combine forces with General Walther Nehring and present a hard, solid front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: In the Muck | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...resolved to "restore the social order in Mexico destroyed by liberalism, pseudo democracy and anarchism; ... to destroy the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Mexican Blackshirts | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Meet Defeat. "When a man is faced with a very difficult problem or a series of them . . . when things become too difficult, there are just three sorts of things he can do." The three: work at it harder, from new angles; get mad and attempt to destroy the obstacle, or himself, or something else; give up in despair and sit in apathy or run away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Why Men Fight and Fear | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Then Sergei and Fyodor were sent to a German-occupied town "to destroy . . . anything ... of any value to the enemy." On the outskirts of the town they met an old peasant woman who offered to help them. They were suddenly attacked by two Germans, Fyodor drove his knife into the body of one; Sergei twisted a short piece of rope around the other's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catalogue of Killing | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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