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Draft news reared its confused head again last week. Testimony by Manpower Commission and Army bigwigs, asking Congress for next year's payrolls, raised a welter of headlines that left draft-age men still hopeful but still bewildered. But a handful of facts shone through the fog...
...Moves In. That night all Los Angeles stayed downtown to see the fun. When darkness came to the fog-chilled streets, the sidewalks and streets were jammed with expectant servicemen and civilians. Shore Patrol cars, Military Police and police and sheriffs' cars patrolled in force...
...duplicated on the airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes, the long summer twilight never ended: the bombers flying on night missions now would fly by daylight when they reached that height...
...ridge cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
...lands;* he would go on to India and China. He had chatted with soldiers in Britain, given alms in Malta, scanned the front in Tunisia, prayed in Jerusalem. Yet he had spent many hours in secret talk with statesmen and dignitaries, and around his plump, energetic figure swirled a fog of rumor and speculation. In that fog last week the Allied and the Axis world thought it could see great significance: the Vatican expected and desired a United Nations victory...