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When the Nazi-Fascist military machine cracks up, the armed forced of the United Nations, among which those of Britain and America will have the last word, will not be able to occupy the whole Italian peninsula at one stroke. Therefore, a crisis will be unavoidable in large sections of the country between the moment of military breakdown and the time when the armed forces of the Atlantic Powers will have firmly established their control over the whole peninsula...
Britannica's first (three-volume) edition was issued by a three-man "society of gentlemen," was restricted to art and science, contained no biographical or historical pieces, brushed off Women in three words ("female of man"), was "uncertain" whether California, ". . . be a peninsula or an island...
There was still fighting to be done in Tunisia early this week. Axis remnants straggled toward Cap Bon, the thumb of the Tunisian hand pointing bluntly at Sicily. Some Germans and Italians were already there, and certain prepared defenses had been built. Correspondents spoke of the peninsula as a potential Bataan...
...spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...
...Three divisions of Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement...