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...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...
...except the noncommittal printing on the currency (TIME, June 19). But to the Gaullists, the main issue was not the currency itself, however dubious its worth. It was simply that no U.S. or British authority had any business floating currency in France. That, said the Gaullists, was solely the function of Frenchmen. When the Allied command supplied its soldiers with non-French "francs," the whole principle of French sovereignty was imperiled...
Progress in Medicine. For patients whose high blood pressures cannot be remedied by surgery, Dr. Walter Kempner of Duke University uses a unique palliative: a low protein diet composed chiefly of rice. His reason: high-blood-pressure patients have poor kidney function and the low protein diet is easy on impaired kidneys. Doctors were incredulous. But Dr. Kempner retorted that only time would tell whether he was right, that meanwhile, so long as the diet helps his patients, he will continue...
...Tenth and Fourteenth Armies were still in one piece. But they had been fearfully cut up. Since the drive began on May 11 they had had around 60,000 casualties; more than 20,000 had been captured; at least five of their 18 divisions had ceased to function...
...very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground commanders to function smoothly together. His was no divided command. He was the boss...