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...true understanding between Russia and Britain, and between Russia and the U.S. Stalin might have removed that obstacle before; why did he choose this moment to do so? In Washington, Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt were discussing moves in a war in which Allied unity is essential for victory. Doubtless they also discussed the future-perhaps the still distant future-of the United Nations and of Europe. Whatever the message Joe Davies took to Moscow, Marshal Stalin could say Vash Khod-your move...
...National Labor Relations Board been asked this question, it would doubtless have answered with a resounding No-drawing a clear distinction between who is Labor and who is Management. But the question was put to the Board about the Foreman's Association of America and the Board answered Yes-only to take back its answer last week...
Field Marshal Kesselring could and probably did expect the Allies to take other commanding heights (such as the beachhead's highest hill, 4,250-ft. Djebel Zaghouan) and then, when artillery and lookouts commanded the lesser places, to drive up the broad valleys. Doubtless he had concentrated in those valleys the things which General Eisenhower last week said had become, not just an obstacle, but a weapon in Tunisia-the land mine. On the hills Kesselring was deeply dug in, with plenty of the 81-mm. mortars which have always been a weapon but are especially an obstacle...
Screwtape writes with the sly temperateness of wisdom and of age: "Doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter haw small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. In deed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope...
...northern front, as they had down south, in solidifying lines which had become dangerously liquid. Without Smolensk, the Russians cannot hope for really important gains in the north. When the lines and Russia's muddy earth are both solid again, then one side or the other will doubtless try, try again...