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...groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting road from the ancient hill village of Esperia, toward Monticelli and the pockmarked Liri Valley, buzzed a jeep with the shield of a general of France. "Voila le grand Charlie!" sweaty Frenchmen shouted to one another, and froze in proud salute...
...shield-shaped insignia last week blossomed on the sleeves of U.S. soldiers attached to General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Britain. Officials said that its complicated design is symbolic...
...shield's black background is the "darkness of Nazi oppression." A Crusader's sword across the shield has "red flames of avenging justice leaping from its hilt." Above the sword a rainbow, made up of all the colors of the United Nations, stands for hope. Over the rainbow a field of blue represents "peace and tranquillity for the enslaved people of Europe...
...Well, Curlyhead-you're a man now, bearing your bright new shield and spear. I hated to see you go out of my house and close the door behind you; but I think I would not have halted you if I could. I salute you, sir. I cannot pretend that I am not sad; but I am proud, too. So long...
...world, becoming almost as numerous as books on the war, were so exhaustive and detailed that they constitute a new field of literature in themselves. Among the most readable postwar books: Make This the Last War (Michael Straight, $3); Let the People Know (Norman Angell, $2.50); U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Walter Lippmann, $1.50); Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Harold J. Laski, $3.50); Between Tears and Laughter (Lin Yutang...