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...sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling in America but there is little pro-English feeling there...
...present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital will care for twice as many patients a day, will surpass in medical and research facilities the cancer institutions in Rome, Milan and Buenos Aires, which at present are considered the best in the world...
...Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents are brought to Manhattan by the pursers of British liners, there handed to the British consulate...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...
Dynamic forces are at work. The recent rioting of Alpine troops is a straw in the wind. The regular army never made a secret of the fact that it did not relish its task. More quiet cursing and derogation of Mussolini is heard in the streets of Rome, Milan and Salerno. The troops in the field are spread out, discontented, badly supported by communications, and strategically exposed to serious defeats. Any spark from a number of sources may kindle the flame, and there are as many gusts of sentiment ready to nourish...