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...these 14 words, the German Command last week admitted a grave defeat, the possibility of a graver disaster. The Dnieper line, on which Hitler had ordered his army to stand or die, was pierced. Now the Germans faced a long and costly retreat, the calamitous political echoes of defeat...
This problem of rank to Bill Farrell is becoming graver every day ... 'Tis rumored the First Lt. WAAC to whom he is engaged is about to be promoted to Captain ... They say being a House-husband...
...Still graver, says McWilliams, is the effect of color discrimination on U.S. friends and allies in Asia, the Pacific, South America. "It is unthinkable," said the Manila Times in 1930, protesting a proposed exclusion bill, "that the American flag should fly over the Philippines while the citizens who look to it for defense and support are barred from entering the United States." McWilliams thinks that "there are many evidences of a growing sense of solidarity between American Negroes and the peoples of India." Says McWilliams: the Good Neighbor policy can hardly be taken seriously by South Americans resentful of North...
These incidents, in themselves, did not deserve the noise which the world's rulers made about them. London and Washington obviously believed that Berlin and Tokyo were up to something. The welfare of the prisoners was of immediate concern. But beyond that some graver issue was hidden behind the screen of threat, recrimination and reticence...
Last year the recapture of Rzhev would have filled Russia and her allies with rejoicing, for then Moscow was in deadly danger and it would have signaled relief. This year the danger was even graver because in the south Russia's industrial guts were being eaten away. As yet the Rzhev offensive had done little to lessen Russia's agony...