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...various Russian cities had already been reported ruined by Russian hands. The retreat had been slow enough to make possible some industrial destruction (factories cannot be destroyed by the hasty heaving of dynamite sticks). Last week Berlin's radio Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw acknowledged an earth-scorching holocaust in the Western Ukraine, gave a clue to the reason for Stalin's reestablishment of political commissars in the Red Army (TIME, July...
...This I Know" Inman faces his most difficult problem, that of coping with a holocaust. His attitude resembles very much that of another chronic invalid, fifty years ago, W. E. Henley. "I am the captain of my soul" is written all over these verses, coupled with a strong sense of excitement at being alive in such a time. The attitude has not aged well, but we can admire Mr. Inman's courage if not his solution...
...nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given an opportunity to be murdered in mass formation. I see my country going down into a holocaust of hell where others have been bleeding for centuries...
Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...
Please cancel TIME. . . . Our poor stomachs are no longer strong enough to handle TIME. You can have Jew Beaverbrook, et al.-we still believe America worth saving from this holocaust for Americans-not British...