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...powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold with each...
...feet below. I ran home to announce the news." That same year Dali fell in love with a wounded bat. Says he: "I picked up the bat, crawling with ants . . . but instead of kissing it, I gave it such a vigorous bite with my jaws that I almost split...
More Divisions Faster. The U.S. Army today includes 70-odd divisions (against Germany's 300), of which a good-sized number are already overseas. Since practically all the 70-odd are earmarked for overseas duty, the Army will have to create many more before next Christmas. The system: split off 1,300-man cadres from older divisions, then add 12,000 green recruits from reception centers...
...ranks of the minority group. The all-out struggle for final domination, the 1944 convention, will determine whether the lessons of G.O.P. defeat have been absorbed, or whether the surge of the conservatives has carried them to control. In the meantime the nation's "loyal opposition" must be split down the middle, with both liberal and conservative elements contributing to the eventual weakening of the Republican candidacy in the next presidential campaign...
Submarines and convettes guarded the first legs of the convey's to Iceland, through the Denmark Straits where the Bismarck went down, and out from Iceland toward northern England. There the convey split into two parts, for England and Russia, with most of the escorting vessels accompanying the England-bound section...