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...Communists. Some pleaded that it was only a small surrender, some that it was necessary to avert worse, some that they were helpless to do otherwise. But surrender it was. Under Geneva's mild sun, the mood of the diplomats was dark; veteran newsmen likened it to Munich...
Sicily to Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action...
Died. Rudolf Beran, 66, pro-German Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1938-39) under President Emil Hacha after the Munich pact and during the first weeks of Hitler's occupation, who was convicted after World War II for collaborating with the Nazis; in prison at Leopoldov, Czechoslovakia...
Bloch, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1938 after graduating from the Technical Center in Munich, has recently made use of radioactive carbon as a tracer in investigating the metabolism of amino acids. He holds the Harvey Medal for medical research...
...Civilized." In little longer than the "twinkling of an eye" so popular in older fairy tales, they were in Munich, and Father Georgescu-who had been notified of their release while on a business trip to Ankara, Turkey, and had flown to meet them-was clasping them in his arms. Twenty-six hours later, after a transatlantic flight, they were hugging their pretty, 46-year-old mother in New York...