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Allied inspectors reported a gargoyle missing, one statue broken, one arch destroyed. The battle with the snipers had left little mark on the taller Gothic north tower, because the U.S. troops were careful to attack only with small arms. The plainer Romanesque south tower likewise showed only a little bullet chipping. Priests who ushered an A.P. correspondent around pointed out the slight damage to the interior-a few windows broken in the south transept, a few supports shattered behind the high altar. The glorious blue glass of Chartres was nowhere to be seen. But, said a priest: "At the start...
...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
Appearance: Excellent. In looks, Bricker is nearly as good a candidate as Indiana's Paul McNutt, without the bril-liantined platinum handsomeness that annoys plainer men. He looks as solid as his reassuring Ohio colleague Robert Taft, without Taft's embarrassing stiffness. He dresses as well as New York's Tom Dewey, without seeming the least dapper...
...Britain and the U.S. the problem was plainer every day: Russia holds too many trumps to be finessed in the game of politics. Equally plain: if the partners in war do not lay their cards on the table soon, there will be the devil...
There is no doubt much truth in Representative Maas' accusations. But there is also much that is confusing, vague, and smacking of political overemphasis. Whatever the facts and fallacies of the speech, however, the general situation which it presents makes plainer than ever the need of considerable streamlining in the Office of Censorship. When newspaper accounts for several weeks convey the impression of victory, and are suddenly followed by such a speech as Maas', indicating complete failure, it takes no great amount of thought to see that things are not as they should be. The resulting ignorance among the public...