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...good of all of us, but mostly for the sake of our soldiers and sailors, let us hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace. If this transition is to be handled without unnecessary unemployment, without further inflation and chaotic confusion, the government must be ready for the swiftest action. . . . Further delays will turn the adventure in prosperity that lies within our grasp into an adventure in adversity...
...British Governments, acting in concert, have failed to do the same thing with Fascists of higher rank. One reason for this failure-and for most of the specific mistakes in Italy-is that amateurs at European problems are attempting to deal with chaotic and revolutionary situations. A more basic reason is that Allied officials in Italy have no firmly laid-down and well-understood policy to guide them...
Wrote U.P. Correspondent Richard Johnston for the combined press: "From beach to beach, Engebi was a scene of almost incredible destruction . . . surpassing what was dealt to Kwajalein. Not a single building was left standing by our bombardment. Even the skeleton structures had been hammered down into chaotic wreckage." Marine losses were "light...
...this tower that the abbot wrote his famed work: the Rule of St. Benedict. This Rule shaped Western monasticism. The Rule brought order into the chaotic monasteries...
There is no doubt whatever about the justice of this comment. The play is frightful. Though concerned with the private life of a stripteaser, Playwright Lee has snubbed her recollections, which might have been gay and rackety, to indulge her imagination, which is chaotic, and display her wit, which is calamitous. Her Honey Bee Carroll (Joan Blondell) inhabits an insane world of trained dogs, live monkeys, mauve milliners, thieving ladies'-room attendants-a world that Gypsy never makes funny and somehow manages to make sexless...