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...Italians managed to creep along. Early this week they were at the gates of Ioannina. The spearhead was eventually supposed to go to Larissa, whence a railway and a good highway lead to the Attic peninsula and Athens...
...weather and lack of fuel last week ended the "sleep trains" which used to take those Londoners who could afford them into safe, quiet countrysides. As for London's slum areas - where hunting cats prowled hills of rubble by day and humans crouched by night under railway and sewer arches-Writer Calder's war lilies were anything but gilded...
...France. Ten days after he arrived in the U. S., at the moment when he was pleading his country's case at a luncheon of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, General Charles Huntziger was signing the armistice agreement with Herr Hitler in a railway car in the Forest of Compi...
...Rene de Chambrun, on railway trains, in airplanes, in hotel rooms, did the next best thing. He wrote a book about how it all happened. Titled I Saw France Fall, it was published this week. Because he had a first-row seat on the Flanders and Lorraine Fronts for nine months, because he happens to have an extraordinary sense of scene and because his book is the first full-length account of how France's 33rd invasion looked to a front soldier, I Saw France Fall is a document of first importance...
...Back into the A. F. of L. after an absence of more than four years went David Dubinsky's powerful: 1. International Ladies Garment Workers. 2. United Textile Workers. 3. Office Workers Union. 4. Maritime Workers. 5. Brotherhood of Railway Engineers...