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...follows an almost unvarying pattern. Rising at six, he washes, makes his bed, meditates, breakfasts on a light tea. In the morning he transacts church business, at 2 o'clock takes a hearty lunch (he eats no meat), likes to spend the afternoon alone. At night he retires to his room to read French, German or English (his chief interest at present), goes...
...Russians follow their familiar pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...possibilities of the Konev and Zhukov drives were tremendous. Konev presumably had the power to expand his Silesian grip toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch...
...pattern of thought underlying the Japanese tactics on Luzon became clearer last week. On the northeast flank, the enemy yielded nothing; every yard of uptilted ground captured by Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift's I Corps was bitterly contested. Under attack from both west and south, Rosario (see map) had been a no man's land for days, battered by naval, air and artillery bombardment, before it fell. Even from there, the road to Baguio would be uphill all the way. The Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung...
...credit side, "Can't Help Singing" has some good songs which, unfortunately for this movie's box-office, sound better out of context in the juke box. Occasionally, too there is some comic relief by Akim Tamiroff and others that departs from pattern...