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When the Revolution came along, William and Mary suspended for awhile, and its buildings, like Massachusetts Hall in Cambridge, was occupied by troops. But the war ended, and the college lived happily until it was destroyed by fire in 1859, Rebuilt, it was again fired, this time by Union soldiers during the--that is, the War between the States...
...Schweizer Bauzeitung: "Air raids have had a terrible effect. Western Germany just celebrated its 10,000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack, but houses are left in ruins to be rebuilt after the war. Despite all Germany's military successes, there is no trace of confidence among the people. All they want is peace." The German civilian Luftschutz (air defense) organization had changed its name to Selbstschutz (self-defense), was conscripting everyone between 15 and 70 except cripples and pregnant...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...
...Laconic. When the most gifted of the post-war novelists rebuilt the first hours of the war it was with imaginations darkened by the memory of the 900,000 English, the 1,385,000 Frenchmen, the 1,600,000 Germans, who were dead in battle. The agony of Verdun, the bogs of suffering in the Masurian Lakes, the memories of starvation, wounds, cruelties, riots, assassinations, broken families and broken lives haunted the minds of men even while they compelled them to try to bring an intellectual order out of war's chaos...
...much they accomplished in nine months of labor is a military secret. But wrecked machine shops are in operation once more. Supplies to reinforce Auchinleck's army in Egypt are flowing through rebuilt quays and warehouses. Mechanized equipment, shot up and damaged in the desert war, are repaired there. The U.S. Army's Major General Russell Maxwell, closemouthed commander of the base which has become one of the most vital in a far-flung chain of United Nations supply depots, admits that the base at Massaua, little-publicized service entrance to Egypt and the Middle East...