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...Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker (see p. 54), for one of the few times in his professional life, was presented with his own check...
Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...
...What Then? What the Russians will do then, say the Russians now, all depends. The Russians feel that by accepting enormous losses, such as would take a generation or two to mend, they could crush Hitler alone. But they do not choose to do that. The Red Army, said Stalin's Order, was "not created for the purpose of conquest of foreign countries, but to defend the frontiers of Soviet land." The Russians intend to have some army left to fight the peace with, too. Therefore, if the Allies have not moved on the Continent by the time Russia...
...skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
...Antonescu's arrests and executions were not to crush an Iron Guard Putsch. Rumania's uprising was spontaneous and was spreading through all classes. It was led by agitators belonging particularly to the Communist and Peasant parties. Perhaps many disillusioned Iron Guardists joined...