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...enclose a letter from a friend of mine. The writer unconsciously provides the most vivid illustration I have yet seen of the Londoner's reaction to the Blitz...
...first eight days of the British-Free French drive for Vichy-held Syria were a weird combination of Blitz and bicker, glad-handing and heavy punching, pushover and furious resistance. Australian bayonets were sheathed; Royal Navy guns blasted. Opposing Frenchmen kissed or killed each other. There was both soundtruck and aerial bombardment. But at week's end General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the mixed show's producer, could look at his opening week with some satisfaction...
...Louisville Courier-Journal, the industry's keyman and ex-radio tsar, had just promised President Roosevelt to make a general survey of the industry. After the report, to start the survey would have been like beginning a census of Yugoslavia the day after the Nazis launched their Blitz...
...Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal of the German High Command. If Turkey refused, Blitz...
...Blitz Without Roads? If the decision is to burst, Russia must be reckoned with, and Russia has promised Turkey not to join in any attack on her. Against Germany alone Turkey could put up a respectable, though probably not a winning, fight. Chief of Staff Marshal Fevzi Cak-mak (pronounced Chockmock) says that Turkey is an infantryman's paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that...