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...Lose this war right here at home thinking it's almost over. I'm against censorship. Tell the people the truth. They've got to know how tough it is, anyhow. . . . This country is in for a shock. . . . The war hasn't even started. Wait until Germany and Japan begin fighting on their own soil...
...Year's Day, 1941, when the blitz against London was in full swing, Adolf Hitler predicted: "The year will bring the completion of the greatest victory in our history." A year later, while the U.S. was still reeling from the shock of Pearl Harbor, the Führer said: "1942 will bring the decision for the salvation of our nation. . . ." Last year he cried: "The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle will. collapse. It will not be Germany." As 1944 opened he said: "In this war there will be no victors...
...Edwin C. Johnson had reduced it all to neat percentages. Said he: the invasion army would be 73% American, only 27% British. Speaking as a Military Affairs Committeeman, Senator Johnson blurted out his statistics without any special criticism of anyone. But he thought they "might be a shock to some Americans...
Beyond the Town. The German resistance was skillful, fanatic. But the Canadians went ahead relentlessly, day after day, house after house. They defied the Nazi flame throwers, bayoneted the enemy shock troops in the basement dugouts. Last week they drove the last German from a town where every building lay leveled or gutted...
...gains in interest by portraying him in the teeth of war. But it produces only a plausible symbol, not a flesh-&-blood human being. Sam is made too articulate about what ails him and not convincing enough about why he alters. Nor does the play, which distrusts the shock tactics of melodrama, possess the skill to be vivid for long without...