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...Uncle Joe" was puzzled as his car rolled down the driveway. In the courtyard of his Chungking headquarters the entire staff of his China-Burma-India Command stood stiffly at attention. As Uncle Joe stepped out Colonel William ("Zamboanga Bill") Bergin stepped forward and shook his hand. "What is this, an execution?" Lieut. General Joe Stilwell muttered. In answer, Colonel Bergin read the President's citation: for bravery in leading and inspiring Chinese troops under fire in Burma last April. Then "Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief...
...thousand men of Harvard will get a chances to show a little pre Princeton forver tomorrow night when the second football rally of the year winds from the Houses, backed by the band, to the Varsity Club courtyard...
...explosion wrecked the Göring-operated Fosdalen Iron Mines. A 400-mile strip of central Norway, including Trondheim and Skien, the home of Henrik Ibsen, was promptly placed under martial law. The Nazis rushed 25,000 troops to the coast and other danger points. In a floodlit courtyard in Trondheim, six blackshirted SS men shot 25 hostages picked haphazardly from civic leaders. North of Trondheim the Nazis also turned on their own troops, executed one in every seven of 1,000 men who had mutinied...
...Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages in the factory courtyard. Then they went back to work making tanks for Hitler's armies in Russia...
Morin and Harlow plan to have two or three more rallies, with the Princeton game the occasion for one of them, and the Army or Brown contests, or both, pulling students into the courtyard in front of the Varsity Club...