Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle for a Battlefield. But the Battle of the Middle East was much more than a nationalist movement. It was a strategic contest of the first importance, in which time was a crucial factor. The immediate stake was the oil of Iraq, and last week's scrimmages suggested that the British might not have time or strength systematically to destroy the wells and refineries before the Germans arrived in force. The secondary stake was the Suez Canal...
...Governor prayed. He waited as long as he could. The 105th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto was at hand, and the Governor never passes up a chance to salute the heroes of Texas in song & story. On his way to memorial services at the battlefield he stopped at a shacklike house near Houston. There dwelt General Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only surviving son of Sam Houston, the Raven, the hero of San Jacinto and the greatest Texan of them all. The old man, who paints, writes history, and fusses with people about his father, talked for ten minutes...
Supplementing these books are reports from many another front on the worldwide battlefield...
TURKEY - Emil Lengyel - Random House ($3.75). Readable, historical, political, social and economic Baedeker to the country which may be the next Nazi battlefield...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...