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...They Want War-From each house flies a great white banner. (One of the first things the military police do is to tell the villagers that they must really show that they have surrendered by flying big white flags.) This is good psychology: it teaches these Germans that they are conquered. If sniping is done from a house flying a white flag the Americans treat it as they would a military obstacle. Here & there you come to a house that has been completely smashed and whose timbers are still smoldering. If resistance comes from a house, there is no dickering...
Shaposhnikov had helped steady the amateur soldiers of the civil war. As chief of the Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, he had created a Red officers corps. He planned the 1939 move into Poland and the winter war with Finland. He was Chief of Staff at the beginning of the present war, played a major role in setting Soviet strategy, of trading space for time, of counterattacking when the Germans were most extended. Then illness forced him to the sidelines...
...British. Guatemala's new constitution claims Belize (British Honduras). A banner cried: "Principles of the Atlantic Charter: to live without fear, want and Belize...
...Reporter Earl Banner zipped into Montreal, shot a quick glance around, then sat down and whipped off a dispatch for the Boston Daily Globe and the New York Times. Gist: Canadians are living the life of Riley; there are no shortages of meat, butter, cigarets, liquor, fuel, women's & children's clothing. In fact, said Reporter Banner, "rationing has inflicted just one inconvenience" on Canadians-they have to tear out stamps...
This rosy news left Canadians goggle-eyed. Actually, Reporter Banner's dispatch was just flapdoodle. Cigarets, in plenty, there are. But Canada's butter ration is 6 oz. a week (and there is no margarine). Liquor is severely rationed in every province. In mid-February, coal was so scarce the Government restricted deliveries, gave priorities to householders with seven days' supply or less. Because of anticipated increases in Europe's needs, the Government last week was reportedly considering resumption of meat rationing. The manufacture of evening dresses, double-breasted coats and pleated trousers is prohibited...