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...past a military tradition. Military, mind you, not militaristic. Even though the Swiss have not fought actively in 100 years, the tradition is completely alive. In some parts of Switzerland, masses for the dead are said every year for soldiers who fell in the glorious encounter at Morgarten in 1315. That fight was against invading Habsburgs, who never could, nor apparently can, keep their rapacious hands off a free people...
...Franco's reply to Hitler: "Many. thanks to you and the German people. . . . May your arms triumph in the glorious undertaking of freeing Europe from the Bolshevik Terror. With . . . friendship and affection...
...salute the glorious Chetniks!-and give you their supreme commander, Generalissimo Draja Mihailovich...
...usual there is one carefree pilot who has to combat the dislike of his companions, sober up after causing the death of a conscientious man, and finally redeem himself by a glorious death while on a dangerous volunteer mission. This time the flyer is John Carroll, who does a better-than-average job with the part, but it doesn't make much difference because the idea is so hackneyed by now. On hand also to fill a necessary part of the old triangle is nurse and war worker Anna Lee. Her heart belongs to the handsome squadron commander, John Wayne...
...A.L.P.'s Dean Alfange 400,000. Tom Dewey was New York's first Republican Governor in two decades; he now held the second most important political office in the land. He looked at his stack of congratulatory telegrams and said: "Gee, this is a glorious...