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Tommies in tanks had recaptured the ruins of the Averoff prison which ELAS had used as a fort. After it fell, resistance collapsed. With all but a third of the capital recaptured, reinforced British troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by winding paths over the hills and melted away into the countryside. Into the streets, behind them, marched British troops and Greek Government Militia, pelted by flowers from shattered windows. Said a perplexed Tommy: "Blimey, I'll never get the hang of these people. First flowers, then bombs, then flowers...
...after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
...college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed. Some had gotten better jobs at Vassar, Wisconsin, Harvard or in Government agencies. Some declared that they were fed-up with the administration's constant kowtowing to the Farm Bureau...
...taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line in 1920 and snatched Vilna from Lithuania...
...Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary Frank Knox: for 117 marines killed at Cape Gloucester, 2,100 Japs had died...