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General Joseph Stilwell's shock columns were still at-not in-Myitkyina. With the prize almost within their grasp, they had stalled. One reason: the Japanese had quickly improvised a stout resistance. Another: torrential rains and monsoon winds had blunted the attack...
...limits, imposed by a strong sense of Dominion independence, seemed unduly narrow to the Prime Minister, he did not seem to worry unduly. In fact, referring to Commonwealth & Empire, he got off a fine Churchillian quip: "The word Empire is permitted to be used, which may be a great shock to a certain strain of intellectual opinion...
...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
...Electrical sleep, an improvement on electric shock therapy for the insane, has been developed by a group of California doctors. A treatment lasts seven minutes. The doctors claim that their method is as effective as insulin shock against schizophrenia...
Directly under him are two of Germany's younger generals: Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz to command the front-line defense of the Atlantic Wall; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to lead the interior army of shock and maneuver which must be thrown wherever the main Allied effort develops...