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...dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that those which escaped had gone on into China. If this was true...
...CABLED DISPATCH OF ROBERT SHERROD (TIME, APRIL 6) HAS STIRRED ME DEEPLY AND I WISH TO EXPRESS MY PROFOUND GRATITUDE. YOU MAY BE CERTAIN THAT MY FEELINGS ARE SHARED BY ALL NETHERLANDERS, NOT IN THE LEAST BECAUSE SHERROD HAS SO WELL RENDERED WHAT LIVES...
Gingerbreads of "honor" were gifts of distinction on special occasions. . . . The birth of Peter the Great, for example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
...more than they liked the British, the Allies all but conceded the loss of Burma last week. As the retreating British prepared to demolish the oilfields and refineries in their rear, TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden visited the front where Chinese troops defended Burma under U.S. command. His dispatch follows...
...said a dispatch this week from Oslo. The mass resignation followed another coat turning by Vidkun Quisling, who decided to call himself a theologian. Claiming ex-officio standing as "First Bishop" of the established Lutheran Church of Norway, Quisling announced a "new Norwegian Christianity based on race and Lebensraum...