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...roads leading into Greece from its Communist neighbors, the guerrillas control five-two from Bulgaria, two from Yugoslavia, and one from Albania. One high-ranking U.S. officer said last week: "So long as it's Communist policy to disrupt Greece by permitting guerrillas to cross and recross the borders there will be war in Greece...
...their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand the report. Franz Kafka ventured across the barrier, reported with an apparent lucidity the cryptographs of silence, and was little understood. "Franz Kafka," wrote Franz...
...wanted to arrange transfer of German wounded and civilians to the U.S. side. Major General Leland S. Hobbs, commanding the U.S. 30th Division, suggested that he make his humanitarianism official by persuading the Wehrmacht commander on the other bank to surrender. Dittmar was willing to try-but not to recross the river. He sent a note across. When no answer was forthcoming, he surrendered himself and his party, which included his 16-year...
When the Germans hacked prostrate France into two parts the line of demarcation placed the tiny village of Cérilly in Unoccupied France. Its cemetery, half a mile away, was in Occupied France. By special dispensation, the German occupation authorities permitted funerals to cross and recross the line without the usual formalities...
...under 3,000 miles. In other words, Japan could not fight a fleet action off our coast, nor could we fight one off Japan. The war would thus become one of simple long-distance radiers (submarines and heavy cruisers, the only vessely with ranges great enough to cross and recross the Pacific from Hawaii), a war directed against the commerce of the belligerent nations...