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...months of battling back from Moscow. In the dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin as one of the truly great military leaders of World...
...presidents we have over had, one of the greatest citizens among our many generations, perhaps the greatest single world figure of these tragic and decisive years. News of his death reached England late at night, and the British Broadcasting spokesman said, with utter candor and generosity, This is the darkest night...
...comparing prices during the darkest days of the war with February prices, Eccles had made the bull market appear falsely sensational. Actually, after three years of prodding, investors had accomplished no more than to hike stock prices from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
...Darkest Day. Within an hour after the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor, Nimitz had impressed his superiors as a man well suited for the Pacific command. He had been summoned to Frank Knox's office on the second "deck" of the barracks-like Navy Department on Washington's Constitution Avenue. There were gathered the Secretary, Under Secretary Forrestal, Assistant Secretary Bard, Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz, then a rear admiral and chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was the calmest man present...
...Prison. Then he learned that some U.S. prisoners, newly freed, were on the other side of the wall. He felt his way down blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt, United Press,' he replied." No one in Manila begrudged Correspondent Quigg this bit of Richard Harding Davis exuberance. For in Manila last week...