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Eighteen Canadian soldiers and a Canadian officer had been captured by the Germans, then "wilfully" murdered. The shocking announcement was based on a factual investigation by an unhurried and "completely dispassionate" joint U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro...
...society's Cornelius Vanderbilt: "This is the dullest, wettest political convention I ever attended. . . . Sitting here in this vast arena where history has been carved out so many times before, I cannot help but be reminded of the mediocrity of these meager...
...Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
Japan's first blow in mid-April fell on tough, little Tang En-po, one of Chung king's ablest generals. But Tang's tactical skill could not make up for the inadequate weapons of his men, for the lack of air cover, for the incredibly meager trans port facilities...
...British cruiser] Exeter, the [U.S. destroyer] Pope and [British destroyer] Encounter headed for Sunda Strait and were never heard from again. On March 1 the [U.S. cruiser] Houston and [Australian cruiser] Perth and [Dutch destroyer] Evertsen headed in the same direction and except for very meager reports of an engagement in the Sunda Strait, they have not been heard from since...