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Pearl Harbor broke the spell. A U.S.Peruvian dragnet swept up the Japanese leaders, sent some 1,500 of them to the U.S. The humbler Japs were not molested; Peruvians hoped that the small fry, freed from Tokyo domination, would not be a serious menace. The 1,500 deportees were still in the U.S. last week. Peru did not care what happened to them so long as they were not shipped back to Peru...
...Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life...
...cheers could be heard around the world. Franklin Roosevelt's victory was good news in London, in Moscow, in Paris, in Chungking. It was good news in many a humbler foreign village which the President, geography-lover though he is, had never heard...
Soldiers of the Allied armies in France were ready last week to salute the humbler military men who have followed in their wake cleaning up their wreckage: SHAEF's civil-affairs officers (G5 in the U.S. Army's general staff divisions). In helping to revive the normal life of a battered France they had proved to be a real military asset. The people of France hailed them as saviors...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will provide women for the Army's humbler jobs-switchboard operators, cooks, chauffeurs, laundresses, welfare workers, clerks, Aircraft Warning Service spotters & plotters. They will serve under the War Department, with special names for ranks, but with Army pay, Army uniforms and Army discipline...