Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not wreck Naples. They did not wreck Rome. The fear that extremist Nazis intend to ravage the rest of Europe has been carefully cultivated by German terror propaganda. But the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, in the past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited...
...Die Weltwoche said that only a thoughtful minority of German leaders stood between Occupied Europe and the execution of the extremists' plans. This minority argued that Germany's one hope was to make no more enemies, do nothing to increase the huge postwar reparations bill. Germans who put forward this sensible argument must have remembered, with a shiver, Adolf Hitler's words last January: "In the end there will be no victors or losers, but only survivors and annihilated...
...nature of the Partisan warfare, the wounded soldier can seldom be transported from the battlefield to the hospital quickly enough. On a truck, a cart, horseback, stretcher or on foot, it takes him anywhere between one week and six weeks to reach his medical destination. He may die or become an invalid for life on the way. It is for this reason that less than 70% of the Partisan wounded ever get fit for the front again...
...typical year about 7,000 U.S. dogs get rabies, infect thousands of people with the deadly virus. But only 50 to 100 people die of hydrophobia, because nearly all those infected get the Pasteur injections in time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...