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Cabled Larry Allen from his hospital bed in Alexandria: "Jock Anderson was the bravest, most courageous newspaper correspondent I have ever known. ... I was with him when the Illustrious was attacked by German planes for seven hours. . . . Anderson emerged smiling...
...will choose for these new detachments the bravest and most gallant comrades, the workers and the intellectuals...
Chiefly it is the story of the Melekhov family, and of its bravest son, Gregor. Even in his youth, Gregor "soberly and tranquilly" reflected: "I've lived and experienced everything in my day. I've loved women and girls, I've trodden the steppe, I've rejoiced in fatherhood, and I've killed men, have gone myself to face death, and delighted in the blue sky. What new thing can life show me? Nothing! And I can die! It won't be so terrible. I can play at war without risk...
Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
...Bravest resistance was in Norway, where the Nazis ordered police to attend all church services and report on any "trespasses" against the "New Order"-a result of the recent letter from the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Most significant signer: Dr. Eyvind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, who at first publicly urged the Norwegians to cooperate with the Nazis, but has now apparently realized how fully they threaten everything Norse and Christian. Despite the police, Norwegian congregations continued to pray for exiled King Haakon and the Lutherans were reported backed in their struggle by other...