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...industrial north, the dread of the average man was deepest. It was no secret that in Milan, Genoa, Turin-the centers of leftist stirrings-Communists had large stores of arms and ammunition. It was an open secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads and munitions...
Much of the credit for this fine job belongs to the director, and to the star, Jennifer Jones. Given a story very susceptible to overacting, they resist this temptation firmly. Miss Jones, whose performance won her the Academy Award in 1943, makes an excellent Bernadette...
...influential Asahi worried over the "destruction of our traffic system as well as our electrical, gas and water supplies." Farmers were officially admonished to increase food production. The Bank of Japan limited reports because of disruption of communications. The Stock Exchange closed down. Japan's battered will to resist began to stiffen in rigor mortis...
From General Alphonse Pierre Juin, currently commanding French occupation forces in Germany, came a telling letter. Pátain had telegraphed secret orders to North Africa, countermanding his published Instructions to resist the Allied landings...
...part of the answer was unknown and unknowable: would, or could, the Japanese continue to resist until each of their cities had been atomized, and then fight on the beaches, in the fields and the hills, and in their countless caves, until every sacred acre had been physically conquered...