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Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
That far-end clearance-once the hope of China-would be futile if Kunming fell. And in any case it was plain that China, in her darkest days ahead, would have to depend upon airborne supplies. General Wedemeyer said the air tonnage was increasing. But as the Japs advanced, it was also clear to the wearied, worried Chinese that supplies by air could not be the complete answer, that what the Allies had done thus far had not been enough...
...Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother-in-law and former Finance Minister H. H. Kung, now in the U.S., of the vice presidency. (Another likely appointment: Dr. Wu Ting-chang, banker and Kweichow Governor, as Executive Yuan Secretary...
...blacksmith's boy from Klanjec had become leader of a resistance movement that at one time or another pinned down as many as 18 German divisions in fruit less, fraying warfare in the wild Croatian and Bosnian mountains. But even in the darkest days, when it seemed as if the out side world would never hear the thunder of war reverberating among the beleaguered hills, Tito seldom grew irritable or despondent...
...former intercollegiate half-miler and now English professor at Sarah Lawrence College) and Henry Morton Robinson (former English instructor at Columbia University, now senior editor of Readers Digest).† They have spent five years "hacking a narrative trail" through Finnegans Wake which was "like going through the heart of darkest Africa...