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...exactly 7:55 the tattered U.S. flag fluttered slowly to the peak. Army brass-hats intoned the proper sentiments. Then down came the colors to half-mast. Last week, five years to the minute after the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, the Army commemorated the day, with the same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion...
Falling Concern. Western Europe's economy (and possibly her hopes for political democracy) hinged on making the Ruhr a going concern. In a peak pre-Hitler year (1929), Germany sent half her exports to western Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, and most of these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither...
This nauseating form of Journalism reaches its peak at this season of the year, after the football compaign is concluded and the multitude of All-DeWolfe Street elevens laid to rest in newspaper archives. Hockey and basketball, while sports of sufficient interest to please even the most greedy promoters, do not contain sufficient human interest to fill all the columns of the numerous pages Boston papers apparently feel must be devoted to sports. As a result, every last drop of blood must be squeezed out of the personalities in whom there is greater interest, and every rumor, gag, and warmed...
...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
...troopship Samaria unloaded 980 Army veterans at Halifax last week. At Brussels, the last 55 Canadian soldiers on the Continent (except for 44 deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...