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There was consternation in Cairo. The new Government, the first to be formed of men who had endured Nazi occupation, ignored young King Peter and his War Minister, Draja Mihailovich, leader of the quiescent Serb Chetníks. Also ignored was the fact that the Government in Exile had been recognized by the Great Powers (including Russia, which has nevertheless nourished the Partisans). To the men of Jajce, a government abroad is no government; a denouncing king in Cairo is no king...
...number of purged generals was reported to be 100 or more,* and though Hitler had been forced to reinstate the three biggest vons (Bock, Runstedt, Leeb) in Russia to mount his spring offensive, he had gone out of his way to decorate Elite Guard heroes. The Army cabal was quiescent. Score one for Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler took the credit...
...Future. By this realignment Joseph Stalin seemed to be dividing the front into two great sectors, instead of the previous three. The third, around Leningrad, seemed now to be quiescent; it had changed from a sector to an episode...
Whatever hope of deliverance lies in the Italian people is quiescent, Correspondent Whitaker thinks. They accept the German occupation "with as much resignation as the eruption of Vesuvius." They are overawed by Germany's military might. But once the Germans are being defeated, they will be ready to rise, he predicts. At night, when an Italian tries to hail a passing taxi (scarce in wartime), he shouts: "Libero? [Are you free?]" In the darkness come answers from people in the street...
...eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart's content, Mr. V.'s sometimes quiescent, often restless stomach. For 13 years Mr. V. was employed in the laboratory, until he finally died of cancer of the esophagus...