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Mohamed Ali Jinnah was riding high (literally - on a dais mounted on a Dodge truck) when his Moslem League convened in Delhi in April. Never before in the League's hitherto pedestrian history had his followers turned out in such numbers...
Above all, these were the points from which the Germans would have to attempt the only campaign which could possibly prevent their final defeat-a series of actions designed to destroy the hitherto indestructible Red Army. Their chances of succeeding in such an effort were less than they had ever been-yet it was hard to see what else the Germans could hope to do. They had already proved that great breakthroughs, great gains of territory, the capture of cities were not enough. Russia now could probably survive even the loss of Moscow and its transport and manufacturing area...
...Mother Will Know. At 20, he caught a heavy cold, and when he took his handkerchief from his mouth after a coughing spell, he saw with horror "a tiny spot of blood on it." Life, that had hitherto been "desirable and glorious," was charged suddenly and forever with the terror of death. This terror spurred Wolfe's rebellion against those who urged him to look for security in life-"the crawling, abject, bird-in-a-hand theory." To his mother's plea that he settle down to teach in Asheville, he replied "I must make or ruin myself...
...tall, bony-cheeked Boston brahmin arrived in India on Jan. 8. He had been entrusted by President Roosevelt with one of the most delicate diplomatic missions of the war. Always correct, hitherto adequate, William Phillips had been the last U.S. Ambassador to Italy. In India he was still called Ambassador. But at his first press conference he parried with a correct diplomatic laugh the question that all Indian nationalists were asking: "Are you an ambassador to His Majesty's Government, to the Government of India, or to the People of India...
Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...