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...Common and perhaps inevitable errors were committed in the conduct of the war in Italy . . . It seems to me above all that the initial error was that of under-evaluating the Italian campaign, neglecting its political consequences . . . Churchill . . . announced . . . that in the case of a victorious breakthrough in the Po Valley, the Allies would drive towards Vienna . . . But Roosevelt and his counselors did not have the same vision of the political importance of this strategy, and the withdrawal . . . of several divisions from the Army of Italy for the landings on the French Riviera so weakened the Army that Northern Italy...
Pioneering Po Toke. Oozies are the natives who train, ride and care for working elephants. Bandoola's oozie was called Po Toke. At first Po Toke had little to do. Elephants mature slowly, take five years to be weaned, another eleven before they can begin to pull and haul heavy teak logs from the hills to the rivers. Author Williams gives Po Toke credit for two pioneering firsts that changed the course of elephant training: 1) Bandoola was the first Burmese work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants...
...mobilized in World War II and helped build the Burma Road. His end came suddenly and mysteriously. One day in 1945, Author Williams found him dead, with a 30-caliber bullet through his brain. To this day, he does not know Bandoola's killer, but he suspects that Po Toke, aged, ailing and unwilling to trust his beloved Bandoola to another oozie, fired the fatal shot...
...took over, Chen restored order, tightened discipline, eliminated "paper soldiers," fired generals by the score. He sent troops to central and southern Formosa for regrouping and retraining-and saw that they were paid. His land-reform measures caused Formosa's small farmers to call him, affectionately, Chen Cheng Po (Elder Uncle Chen Cheng). Since he stands 5 ft. 5 in. and weighs only no Ibs., he is also known, without disrespect, as the "Little Premier...
...stops he makes a habit of sketching in his cab. When his son was born 28 years ago, Luigi Cremonini hopefully named the boy Leonardo Raffaello. Father and son spent days off together painting by the green-scummed Navile Canal, which connects their native city of Bologna to the Po...