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...luck of the draw and the schedules, the 82nd was the first airborne divi sion to go overseas and into action. Ridgway and his outfit became the test case for the whole airborne program. Elements of the division went first to North Africa, and the entire division was first committed in Sicily, July...
...charge and countercharge, Governor Dewey was by now pretty well lost from sight. That cool politician's case seemed to depend on what he meant by "political news." But however technically correct Secretary Hull may have been in his denial, the affair had certainly not lessened the ten sion between him and the U.S. press. Said one Washington correspondent...
...Adolf Hitler. He believed that the Russian Orthodox priests and their congregations would flock to the side of Rus sia's Nazi invaders, who would free them from the persecuting Bolsheviks. What Hitler did not foresee was that his inva sion would turn Russia from a country in which a majority of defenseless Christians was ruled by an aggressive anti-religious minority into a nation in arms, in which the majority, though intensely patriotic, was no longer defenseless...
...Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion. Title of the movie: Welcome to Great Britain...
...British and French] can use their own public opinion to pave the way to a deal with the aggressors." Aug. 10 - A French-British military mis sion arrived in Russia. The talks got no where. Marshal Voroshilov later said the Russians had argued that to be able to give effective aid the Red Army would have to enter Polish territory. He said the Anglo-French mission did not agree, that the Polish Government refused to accept military assistance from Russia...