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Hunger for Magic. If there is one thing above all that can be isolated as the cause of fascism, says Flynn, it is the growth of an unwieldy public debt. In Italy, shortly after the peninsula was unified for the first time since the breakup of the Roman Empire, popular education and the modern newspaper gave Italians hope that abundance might be wrung from the bony ridges of their ancient land. But neither the schoolteachers nor the journalists could tell individual Italians how they might create that abundance. And so the first great prerequisite for fascism appeared: a wide spread...
...These men who strike or threaten to strike are Americans like all of the rest of us. [They] are not essentially different from heroes in the South Pacific and on the Italian peninsula. They can be more accurately defined as the victims of the failure of the nation to develop a sense of responsibility in this gravest of all wars...
...Guinea, Australian troops seized Sio, a Japanese barge center. The dividend: when these units join Americans, now pressing ahead on the rugged Huon peninsula coast, the stage will be set for a drive on Madang...
...first landing was made. But the Japs were not prepared for so strong an attack at a spot so lightly defended and so difficult to reinforce. General Cunningham's plan called for a diversionary landing by Sixth Army units on "Blue Beach" at the top of the peninsula, then the main landing on "Orange Beach" at the foot...
Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...