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...Then what the hell am I worrying about...
...that Germans, individually and in the mess, reacted to bombing pretty much as the British did in the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1941. They died by the thousands; they suffered; they moaned to their soldiers at the front. In the target cities they lived in a hell worse than London's worst. But, up to this week, there has been no substantial evidence that the German people have yet been brought to the cracking point...
Navy men call her "The Old Lady," although her age in service is barely five years. She has fought more major engagements, done more damage and raised more general hell than any other ship in the Pacific. Precisely because she has been so deadly successful, her country knows almost nothing about her. Less fortunate ships struck their blows gallantly, paid with their lives and eventually had their hour of fame when their stories were told...
...hell created by the Germans at Sevastopol came in the midst of the lovely, flower-scented early Black Sea summer, the season when in the old days the nobility, in the new days the people of Russia had taken their vacations along that coast. Voyetekhov gives a paradisal picture of the peace he left behind him in the Caucasus: "Beside whitewashed, tin-roofed houses, on cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were...
...invite to Seth Grey for our party Monday still holds, since he's back with us, promoted, temporarily, to administrative assistant to Miss Lupo. We nominate him C. M. O. (Calmest Man on Campus) this week, because he actually knows where he'll be the next four months, come hell or high seas...