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Anyone who could make a statement that we froze in our foxholes is not familiar with the operations on this island. The breakthrough that is mentioned in your article was one of the most heroic. We are proud to work with the unit who met the brunt of the attack...
...visited Canadian servicemen in camps and hospitals. He praised 1,200 Canadian troops in Westminster Cathedral for their "heroic courage." Of Britain, which he had not seen since war began, the Cardinal said: "One has to see with one's own eyes to believe and to measure the dreadful effects of war and also to appreciate the . . . incomparable endurance [of Britons...
...countries. For in Moscow the blacksmith's son from Klanjec had acquired a philosophy of life and action (Marxism), a party (the Communists) for which to work, conspire,* live and if necessary die, a Russian wife and son Zharko, who was decorated last year by Marshal Stalin for heroic service in the Red Army. Like most Russian-trained Communists, Broz soon acquired a dangerous mission also...
...refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just now putting the finishing touches to his new novel, They Fought for Their Country. Sholokhov gets his heroic effect by indirection. He does not find it necessary to rant or repeat cliches of patriotism. He writes what seems to me to be the truth about soldiers. He says: "How much does a man need in time of war? To get a little farther away from death than usual...
...Leningrad. Speaking specifically for the magazine Snamya, of which he is an editor, but inferentially for all Russian writers, he said that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that the German enemy, which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed at Lidice and Maidenek; 5) occupy itself with human honor, conscience and soul; 6) call on Russians...