Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...
...claim that "there has never been any act of sabotage or protest against the war." He conveniently forgot his purge of 160,000 faltering Fascist Party members and the close watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...
Although no members of the Harvard football team were chosen for the first and second All-Eastern elevens by the United Press, two players, Captain Don Forte stellar end, and Charlie Gudaitis, Sophomore guard, received honorable mention on the listings...
...previous communique said the fighting had progressed to cast of Djedeida, within ten miles of Tunis, but tonight's did not mention the exact positions, reporting that Allied advance units were keeping up strong pressure in the vicinity of Djedeida and Mateur, 20 miles south of Tunis
There was no mention of a 1943 Summer School, since it is felt that the Armed Forces will be plotting much of Harvard's future by that time...