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...Navy casualty list, published this week, showed that 2,317 Americans had been killed, wounded or missing from April 16 to May 10. To most of the U.S. the curt, dry list of names brought no shock. The war was still far away, bloodless, unreal, fought abroad by unknown...
Since censors have scissored daily weather forecasts out of the newspapers, U.S. citizens have tended to forget their favorite pre-war topic. Last week they learned with a shock that the weather had been worse this spring than in any other spring in 60 years. The American Red Cross let out the news...
Where to Go? Vacationers will find little to do on either coast. The troubled shore waters of the Atlantic are often coated with oil. Bodies wash ashore on beaches often enough to shock swimmers...
...Mama Boys' who in peacetime (when there is no selective service) choose invariably the Navy and find that, though the sea may be 'Mama,' the Navy is definitely 'Papa, and blow up promptly in the training station with the shock of the discovery...
...Italian people, said Matthews, have been shocked out of the complacency with which they entered war against Britain. Greatest shock has been the sell-out of all the fine-sounding ideals with which Benito Mussolini once used to charm his people. The most powerful men in the country are the great industrialists who run the Fiat (autos, armaments), Montecatini (mining and chemicals) and Snia Viscosa (ersatz textiles) monopolies. Along with them has been created a new class of wealthy men in high Government office. Italian peasants, remembering Mussolini's attacks on Democratic plutocrats (men who grew powerful through wealth...