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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, dark and square of chin, Clint Anderson came to Congress four years ago after a career that included newspapering (Albuquerque Journal), selling insurance (Mountain States Casualty Co.), the presidency of Rotary International (1932), and administration of New Mexico's relief (1935). He is a gentleman farmer. Three years ago he bought the 935-acre Lazy V Cross ranch, five miles outside Albuquerque. There he has 450 acres of alfalfa, 135 milch cows, and 300 head of Rambouillet sheep...
Driving up through the incredibly beautiful mountain country toward Caporetto, we passed many small Yugoslav convoys moving north. They were travelling in groups of 50 or 60, some on foot, some in long, horse-drawn wagons. The Partisans looked at us with dull, tired eyes. One of these groups had four 37-mm. antitank guns-the only artillery I saw on the whole trip...
...10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming...
...lover saluted old friends as Rembrandt's Woman Bathing, Rubens' Judgment of Paris and Titian's Christ and Mary Magdalene. These and 47 other choice paintings were the first of the National Gallery's treasures to be returned to London from the 300-ft.-deep mountain caves near Blaenau Festiniog, Wales, where they had been stored since the blitz. What with shortages of transport, return of the entire collection will take about three months...
...Europe drained off slowly into peace. Until five days after the official surrender there was still skirmishing by Germans too afraid of peace to submit. Then the Russians closed in, and the bitter-end Germans burrowed into forest and mountain hideouts. The fight had at last gone from the Wehrmacht...