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...barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings of Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity...
...give him comfort or joy. After months of slow disintegration, Spanish affairs were brought into sharp focus. Out of Spain last week came the clearest picture yet of a tottering regime. Franco's country, unreconstructed, is hungry, sullen, restive. He has not a strong friend abroad, and precious few at home. Of the two powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able to do him any real good, still has the means to work him grievous harm. In an economic sense he is living on the measured bounty...
...gone when the enemy, simply by flying over China's amazingly efficient warning net, could suck U.S. aircraft aloft and by that deed alone strike a heavy blow in the expenditure of precious U.S. fuel. On the P-40s, the Mitchell bombers and the handful of big Liberators, tiny Jap flags were growing in number. And the U.S. death list was not growing forbiddingly long...
...estimated 275 wellarmed, well-led divisions with any chance of success. Today, Russia's might and the Allied threat in the west make upon him two stern demands: i) He must establish a strong defense line somewhere on the Eastern Front, and 2) he must hoard his precious reserves of men and materiel...
...first ads were calmly logical, only slightly pouty. One mentioned "the galaxy of pinups and other divertissements demanded by the armed forces." Another: "Soldiers and sailors have been writing us . . . telling us what store they set by their precious copies of this much-thumbed and well-regarded magazine." A third was eloquent about "the boys" who want "pleasant things to think of, and to look at. ... They want to think of girls and gaiety and good times. . . . They want to be reminded of all the pretty, pleasant, soft and gentle aspects of the life they've left behind...