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...holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Crossings Ahead | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...dream came true last week for U.S. Army aviators: they got their chance to loose avalanches of fire bombs on Tokyo and Nagoya, and they proved that, properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...assassin, a lean, pale, 26-year-old Egyptian lawyer named Mahmud Issawi, submitted impassively to arrest. To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment. He had been released last Autumn-by order of Maher Pasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: War & Death | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...their equivalent. Trans-Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little state by the Red Sea, was not represented, but a delegate was also hopefully expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Arab Federation? | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...autumn there were enough cash and promises to guarantee a $200,000-a-year, five-year trial. The school opened with only 25 students (most sponsors could not spare any men). But already students, teachers and sponsors feel confident of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Internationalists | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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