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Slowly the Germans crept toward Voronezh. They crossed and cut Russia's important railway link between Moscow and Rostov. They commanded the middle reaches of the Don, although they had yet to master its lower channel, where most of the river's traffic moves, where Russia breeds her fighting Cossacks. Some 100 miles below Voronezh, the Nazis seized Rossosh. Then they drove on south and eastward...
...Neighbors Down The South" is a documentary film on the construction of the new, and as yet uncompleted Pan-American road which will link the two Americas. The pictures show the work from the chopping away of the underbrush to the final cement-laying on the road...
...defense should remain under a British Commander in Chief, the Congress party wanted the Defense Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council (analogous to the U.S. Secretary of War) to be an Indian. Britain agreed to this, but proposed to take away his function as a link between the Government and the C.-in-C., giving it to the C.-in-C. himself. This would have left the Indian Defense Member holding a bag of relatively unmilitary responsibilities such as public relations, demobilization, post-war reconstruction, petroleum, canteens, stationery and printing...
...banned all further production after June 30. Band instruments now in manufacturers' and wholesalers' hands will be made available only to Army, Navy and Marine bands. Instrument makers will make precision instruments for airplanes; piano makers will turn out gliders, and organ makers will make blowers for Link ground trainers...
Like his masses, Whitman lacked the self-mastery, the intelligence and the creative idea whereby true democracy becomes possible. He glimpsed "the necessity of bringing the moral sense into a new relation with intelligence," but he could "only link them loosely and hopefully together." He vaguely foresaw "the basic problem of democracy, that of reintegrating the individual in a social whole and converting a semiconscious mass into a community of responsible persons," but "he overlooked the cost of integration, as he had overlooked it in himself." And "his lack of insight into the nature of imagination and the spiritual cost...