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...ardent antifascist, Robeson later went to Spain, sang for the Loyalists on the battlefield, his great voice carrying into the Insurgents' camp. Late in 1939 he decided to come home...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...have not been out of a war zone for seven years, but I don't think I ever really knew how the soldier felt until I was wounded and had to lie on the battlefield alone and in pain, as so many have done before...
...People's Role. In the agony of revolution, in the process of becoming a battlefield, a battered and buffeted nation might be finding its soul. It might be reaching back across the years to pick up again the democratic thread woven in a history of foreign oppression and domestic tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph...
...worked manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore, to provide a superb piece of statuary for the plinth in Cobh...