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...Yeremenko is thickset, deep-dimpled Lieut. General Rodion Ya-kovlievich Malinovsky, 44. Odessa-born, he joined the army when he was a boy, fought in France (Amiens, St. Mihiel) with a Russian infantry brigade alongside Americans and Britons. "I shall never forget the British," he says. "Shaving in the darkest days, pipes perpetually between their teeth, they never moved faster than a walk whether in advance or retreat." In this war he won the Order of Lenin for helping to defeat Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist during the Red counteroffensive of 1941. Last December he smashed Field Marshal...
...Darkest Hour. Of the German Underground, Authors Weyl and Jansen write: "The collapse of the Western Front in 1940 ushered in the opposition's darkest hour in the war period.... Men and women who for years had worked in the Underground gave up their organizational connections. . . . 'Our attitude toward the Nazis and toward the regime has not changed one iota,' but what...
...patient," Churchill the Subaltern wrote nearly 50 years ago, "because, among other things, it knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down." Still a scrapper, Churchill the Prime Minister turned on the rich flow of rhetoric which stiffened British spines in the darkest hours of World War II. This time his finely chiseled words, falling flat and harsh, rubbed salt into the sores of India. "Mischievous half-truths," screamed the Indian press...
...pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can't use too many drums. In a good standard plot, talking drums warn fierce natives of the unsuspecting white man's approach while the reader shudders. Last week in Natural History Dr. Albert Irwin Good, who understands Bulu and related African dialects, published the first popular article on the linguistics of drums, the complicated telegraphy whereby African drummers talk across the jungle...
...anyone who had watched a generation grow up in pacifist isolation" is the nearest he came to putting it in words. "Neither Americans nor any other people pay the ultimate sacrifice by diving their planes into aircraft carriers unless they believe in something." Sherrod got to Australia in its darkest hour, when most of the Anzac troops were still 7,000 miles away fighting in the Middle East, when U.S. aid was hardly more than a promise and the Japs were expected to sweep south from Java at any minute. He left just when our first major attack...