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...Paper Controller issued candidates 125 pounds of paper and the Petrol Controller gave them extra gasoline. For the quick eight-week campaign, that was plenty. South Africans dubbed it the "blitz election": most of the electorate had not expected it until late summer; some had not believed there would be an election until after the war. As they voted this week, South Africans knew that Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts had set the election date early because victory in North Africa had come so soon. They also knew that canny Field Marshal Smuts would not have called the election until...
Croxburn was a bleak London suburb made bleaker by the Blitz. Its people-many of them - were phlegmatic busybodies made vicious by the strain of war. In the cold winter of 1942, with the side walks filmed with ice, weary infidelities in the cold houses, grafting in the desultory municipal government, train service rotten and winter colds everywhere, murder was possible. In Croxburn it happened...
...best parts of the novel stand out so sharply that all its murder and mystery seem irrelevant. During the Blitz the village had known a finer hour. In the silence before raids the guards had met, waited and talked. The bombs jarred loose ancient reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed...
...British bombings have created panic and terror in Italian cities ; that in their desperation the Italians have cursed the men who bring the bombs, forgetting that Italian bomb ers were active in Ethiopia and Spain and that Mussolini insisted on sending a token bombing force over Britain during the blitz. This made little difference to Mussolini. He fobbed off the British as "at least civilized, because they are Europeans," knowing that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against the U.S. was in direct ratio to his fears...
From that shock the Germans and Italians never recovered. Their commanders undoubtedly had foreseen the fall of Tunis. Nevertheless they failed to appreciate what a little blitz of 40 miles would do to their own armies. Psychologically, they broke down...