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With the dogged persistence of antiaircraft batteries blazing away at attacking bombers, Axis radio transmitters are fighting off United Nations' broadcasts with strange and unpleasant noises. When World War II began, Nazi jamming was unpredictable. Today Germany, Italy and Japan all jam regularly, systematically, most of the time.* In...
"The people in Murmansk make no distinction between Nazis and Germans. One used to hear: 'The German people will revolt against the Nazis.' Now one hears: 'The Germans will perhaps revolt when we Russians have killed them all. Then there will be no need to revolt.'
Author Ormsbee's battlefield scenes are just as tough. His no man's land is awash with blood. His hospital interludes are richly orgiastic. Lying in his hospital bed, Hero Abner hears "the nurses being chased through the halls, laughing and screaming."
At night, after he has cleaned up his desk, he reverts to his old job as publisher of the Daily News, which still pays him $60,000 to make up the difference between his $15,000-a-year Cabinet job and the $75,000 salary he used to draw in...
Second honors go to Maisky, who has been the great interpretative bridge of Britain to the Kremlin. The loudest "hear hears" followed the tribute to "the valuable contribution to Anglo-Russian understanding made by Mr. Maisky over a long period of years." Many M.P.s looked up toward the very popular...