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...were working. One of them did not know the name of the town in which he was born, and another did not know how old he was. When asked for their voting precinct, many of them had never voted. General comment was: "I never bother with voting. Why the hell should I? They wouldn't do nothing for me anyway even if I should vote for 'em." There were wisecracks of course, typically Yankee-about the "red tape" of registration, the "propaganda" in the little bulletin of instructions given to each man, about the message by Franklin Roosevelt...
Gene Tunney: ". . . I'd rather go down to hell with Wendell Willkie than to the White House with Roosevelt...
They rushed on to the Turkish Embassy, and waved the crescent & star beside those other two fine flags. It was the Turkish Republic's 17th birthday, and they had heard that in Ankara the paper Ulus had said: "We prefer the hell of war to a dishonorable peace." Just like the stubborn Turks, they said...
...Hills of Hell. That this "neutral" news was fabricated and exaggerated did not take away one jot from the performance of Greece. The mere fact that Greece chose to oppose the Axis juggernaut defied belittling; it was magnificent...
There were five main spearheads to the Italian attack (see map, p. 26). The most important Italian effort was aimed at Ioannina, in Epirus. Homer located Hell in Epirus, and the Italians saw why last week. It is only about 35 miles as the airplane flies from the Albanian border to Ioannina; but on the ground the miles stand on end. The terrain is violently mountainous. There are no railroads, and most of the roads are little better than shepherd trails. The area is crisscrossed with low valleys, and last week torrential rains made horrible mud ponds of the roads...