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...proof, mortar-proof nests beneath the roots of the giant jungle trees. He has put keeneyed snipers in hundreds of treetops. He has mown down the grass and jungles to give lanes of sweeping fire to his guns. From such positions companies can hold up battalions, and battalions can resist divisions...
Less candid was Mussolini when he quoted, and then answered, Winston Churchill's threat (TIME, Dec. 7) of "prolonged, scientific and systematic" bombing of southern Italy. Said Mussolini: "We have . . . shelters that can resist the biggest bombs." Other omissions...
...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...
...tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...
...Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...