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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
...difficult struggle for months to come. Said Germany's Vice Admiral Friedrich Lützow, broadcasting last week: "We willingly concede that our enemies leave nothing undone to make it very difficult for our U-boats. We admit that the enemy is doing everything in his power to render his anti-U-boat defenses ever more effective, to replace the losses by new construction and by strengthening discipline among his crews . . . the fight will become ever harder. We are prepared for this...
...until it becomes the emotion that predominant ly determines how the United Nations will act, then the forces of evil will have won their greatest victory. They will have infected those who are mightier than the Axis. Thereby they will have assured a continuity of cruelty and folly . . . and render it impossible for mankind to achieve a just and durable peace...
...Wadsworth bill would compel all boys reaching the age of 18 to submit to one year of military training before they reach 20. The purpose of this legislation is to forestall the very strong instinct for disarmament after the war, which, if undertaken too soon or too suddenly would render the United States unable to back up its collective security with force if it is needed...
...victory meant much more than the destruction of a great army. It meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...