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...knew where the report originated. The dispatch to a London news paper from Switzerland indicated an Axis source. A New York Herald Tribune dis patch from London surmised that the suggestion came originally from Pope Pius XII. Said the London Catholic Times: "If a sound agreement could be reached for claiming Rome an open city, it would be welcomed by the mass of Europeans, but no such agreement has been announced to date and there is no evidence of one being negotiated by the Holy See." No earthly power could guarantee safety for Pope Pius if bombers ever swarmed over...
...fading, surging waves over half the earth's surface to the ears of TIME's Correspondent Teddy White. He was aboard a U.S. bomber in China, returning from a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese army on the Salween River front. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch...
...Best dispatch was an interview with a Red general, who told of Russian tricks in Stalingrad. Sample: "A man should not be afraid to take a position in the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. . . . Artillery and aviation hit their own troops if the distance between trenches is 20 to 40 meters. As soon as German planes appear over Stalingrad our artillery opens fire and the Germans send up rockets signaling: 'Don't hit our own troops.' We give exactly the same signal, and then the devil himself couldn't tell where or how to bomb...
There will be neither peace nor good will nor much reason for celebration unless it is to celebrate the victory at Buna, for which the Americans and Australians are still furiously fighting as I write this dispatch with Christmas one week away...
Said Chicago Daily News Correspondent Victor Gordon Lennox in a Dec. 5 dispatch from London: "Already one correspondent has returned to London ahead of two messages he dispatched before leaving...