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...barrage into Germany. Said one private from Regina: "We're conquerors now, not just liberators." In flooded areas, the Canucks bustled from one "island" to another in amphibious vehicles. They braved the thick Reichswald, gained seven miles in three days, tore the guts out of the German 84th Division. At week's end they were fighting from house to house in Cleve, against German paratroops rushed north from Alsace. Cleve fell...
...Berlin radio announced that the Germans were evacuating Saint-Hubert. When the Allies entered the town a day later, it was empty. The U.S. 2nd Armored and 84th Infantry found only nine Germans in Laroche. The British, pushing against the nose of the salient, suddenly discovered nothing ahead of them, swept up 100 square miles in two days...
...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...
...Berlin's 84th raid of the war. It was not the last, nor the heaviest that Berlin must take...
Birthday. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, liberal, dissenting Justice of the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939; in Washington retirement; his 84th...