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...Rolls Royce popped a peppery dowager. She crossed the sidewalk to the sedate five:story pile, a block from Government House in Buenos Aires. Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...
...fought Germans with rifle fire from room to room until the last enemies were chased out. Then two potato-masher grenades flicked in through the window. Two Americans were wounded. By the time another had sprung to the window, the Germans had disappeared into a doorway only ten yards away...
...roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...
...littleness of these pictures is what we shall have to live for again, when the war is done. In the experience of every man, every day, it is what constitutes peace. A grandmother seated in a doorway, dreaming in retrospect; the flying step of a dancer across a stage, like a festive honeybee; a watery cloud breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval...
...take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along pretty well also. . . . Little Bawk and I handled the worst cases. . . . Just as we were really going to town I looked up and saw General Stilwell standing in the doorway! The room behind him was littered with the patients we had been operating on. ... Nurses were receiving patients from the trucks and giving first aid. Three Chinese casualties were standing by the wall of the operating room waiting for nurses and Friends to carry away the one who had been operated...