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...General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army wedged warily into the Bavarian Palatinate. The Seventh's week of advance was more a careful pursuit than a driving offensive. The enemy fought small-scale delaying actions (the Americans took only 2,707 prisoners during the week) as they withdrew from vulnerable points in France to their Siegfried Line of forts and forests...
...confident of the protection his flag of truce gave him. He asked 24 hours to make his decision: surrender or harakiri. But when he turned up 24 hours later, he had discovered another alternative. He politely informed the Americans that he had decided to stay in the jungle, politely withdrew...
...Gluzburg." The political war kept pace with the shooting. In the absence of newspapers, EAM littered the streets with leaflets denouncing the Government and "George Gluzburg"* as "great enemies of the people." By order of Winston Churchill, wavering Premier Papandreou withdrew his resignation, issued a statement: "My Government defends freedom against the tyranny of an armed minority which is fascist." Said his Minister of Marine, Poet-Politician Panayotis Kanellopoulos: "We are waging a struggle of the democratic front against the fascist Left...
...Hemisphere Doghouse. Last June the U.S. State Department finally lost all patience with Argentina, withdrew Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires, where he had had no official relations with the Government since the accession of President Farrell. Britain obligingly followed suit. So did most of the Latin American nations. Argentina found herself in diplomatic quarantine, recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador among Hemisphere nations...
Brain Food. In Kalamazoo, Librarian Lillian Anderson opened a returned book, withdrew the bookmark - a dried fish...