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Last week the conservative New York Sun splashed these words across its front page. They were part of a dispatch from the Sun's roving Correspondent-Columnist Ward Morehouse, who attributed them to Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle, commander of the A.E.F. in northern Ireland. They were remarkable words because, on their faces, they were the nearest thing yet to a direct statement on the Second Front issue from a responsible U.S. military figure. Noteworthy also was the fact that the dispatch had been passed by the U.S. Army censorship. According to Reuters (British) News Service, "Scrappy" Hartle...
...interpretation, the Sun's story could be taken as a direct hint that the Allies might launch a sacrificial Second Front in time to help Russia. Yet the same dispatch, quoting other military men in the British Isles, also reported the same old conclusion that a Second Front in Western Europe would be impossible before next spring...
...Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
Better than the Truth. This dispatch was a kick in the teeth for Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the man to whom the U.S. people look for accurate reports on the quality of U.S. fighting planes. Only last fortnight, at a press conference called expressly to give Washington correspondents the truth, General Arnold had been asked about a report that U.S. fighter pilots were using British Spitfires in preference to available U.S. fighters. General Arnold called this report "a flat...
...China. No correspondent has reported their activities so thoroughly as TIME'S Jack Belden who has lived and flown with them. After five years of war in Burma and China, Correspondent Belden was in India last week, for a war correspondent's holiday. This "is his last dispatch from the China air front...