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Usually well-informed sources close to the Committee indicated last night that the Mole's supporters all over the country have been putting pressure on Chester Gould, creator of "Dick Tracy" to destroy his hero "like an earthworm" and make the Mole the central figure of his comic strip...
...standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines...
While Mahatma Gandhi continued along the road of pacifism, his Congress comrade, Jawaharlal Nehru, declared: "Unlike Gandhi, most of us are not pacifists, but this war has convinced us of the futility of armed states trying to destroy each other . . . periodically. . . . We want no great powers-great in armed might-but free nations. . . . How can I fight for freedom when that very thing is denied...
Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...
...Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...