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...Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco guerrilleros behind Franco's lines. He was next heard of in France, working in the section of the underground whose function was to dispatch men from all over Europe and the U.S. to fight in Spain. He did not reappear again until the fascism he had fought in Franco Spain had overrun Yugoslavia in the form of Naziism...
...latest U.S. amphibious landing at Angaur was made ten months after the first heavily opposed landing in the Pacific, at Tarawa. This dispatch from TIME Correspondent John Walker shows what Americans have learned, in those ten months, about such ugly jobs...
Then, for almost four months, Bob Davidson fought his own war against the Germans. From eyewitnesses, he collected detailed robomb data and even drawings. Working with the F.F.I, he cut telephone wires, stretched ropes across highways to trap German dispatch riders. He raided German guard posts to steal guns and documents. "We'd steal explosives and carry them away in sacks. Two or three days later a bridge would blow...
...London, which has frequently scooped the world on big diplomatic maneuvers, announced that a three-power conference would follow Quebec. And through Moscow censorship came a dispatch hinting that Russia might soon join the war against Japan...
...squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...