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...Balkans have been the training ground for more foreign correspondents than any other area in the world. And of those trained there in the last quarter century, most have learned from Fodor. Says John Gunther. one of his star pupils: "Fodor is one of the true good men of this earth. ... He has the most acutely comprehensive knowledge of Central Europe of any journalist I know. Half the good work that has come out of the Danube countries since 1920 or thereabouts has been Fodor's, not only his direct correspondence, but-indirectly-the work of other people whom...
Adolf's Choice. Rundstedt's unenviable place in the west was taken over by Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
...they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
Germans of the veteran Hermann Goring Division (Libya, Tunisia, Sicily) surrendered Cervaro only after hours of artillery, machine-gun, grenade fire. Then they counterattacked with eight companies, tanks, self-propelled guns. Repulsed at last, they left a few prisoners-arrogant, undaunted teen-age Nazis. Said Private Donald Gunther, prodding two of them with a bayonet: "You're just a couple of Krauts...
...Eisenhower stood the ordeal well, so well that excited Correspondent John Gunther compared him to "a perfectly confident and unworried father awaiting the birth of a healthy baby." Like an expectant father, the general was up most of the night, driving out with a few officers of his staff to wave a farewell salute to one of the Allied air fleets taking off. Around midnight he went to the Naval War Room, where British Admiralty officials, who were in charge of the tactical operation until the troops actually landed, had the latest information to give him. Later he got three...