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...titled Italian family, according to Army friends. He looked the part in his early army years. Tall, slender, boasting both a mustache and a Vandyke beard, he had been commissioned a lieutenant when he was 20, was a captain at 25. At that time, in 1903, most captains were nearer 40. Lanza played the piano "beautifully," spoke five languages (including French, German, Italian), made a brilliant record as a staff officer, was decorated for his work as an artillery staffer in France during World...
...several differences. The most important question: whether a militarily dominated or a politically dominated provisional government should act for the French and their Empire before they choose their postwar government. General Giraud prefers a military regime. Allied victory in North Africa strengthened his position, but it also brought nearer the time when he and General de Gaulle must-or should-unite for the return to la patrie...
...peak strength the Axis troops in Tunisia never numbered more than 250,000, were perhaps nearer 150,000. About 50,000 had been killed or captured since the Mareth battle. There were probably something more than 100,000 left when the final assault began last week...
...alternative was a prolonged war of attrition and defense of the lines now established in Russia. But, as a continental front in the west loomed nearer & nearer, the German chances of sustaining the enormous armies necessary for such a defense became dimmer & dimmer...
Colonel Edward M. Kirby, radio chief of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, wants to use the Wire Recorder to bring the battlefronts nearer home. With this device the radioman makes his comments into a hand microphone, which would also pick up surrounding battle sounds. The microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...