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...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
...Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
Eisenhower also began to collect royalties in the air. His ground victories, long aided by air supremacy, now freed the airforce from its long task of dumping heavy loads on occupied territory, including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle...
...conference had lasted only ten minutes; it had been, perhaps, the most desultory in Franklin Roosevelt's eleven years in office. In a week in which the top two U.S. war-production men had fallen out, in the week that Paris had been freed, this was all that newsmen had asked the President of the U.S., and all he had to tell them...
Rules for Reform. Last June the Pro visional Government ruled that collaborationist newspapers, including those mentioned by Pertinax, shall be suspended and their property confiscated as France is freed. It also alarmed some lovers of freedom by providing for regional press and information committees from which authorization must be secured for the publication of all newspapers and magazines. And in July it set up the French Press Agency, which will have exclusive rights to distribute all news inside France. Though these edicts sound dangerously authoritarian, in view of the record they are probably justified as temporary measures. The new rules...