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Just west of the hard-fighting Britons were the Canadians under 40-year-old Major General Guy Simonds, youngest commander of his rank in the Canadian Army. Lieut. General A. G. L. McNaughton, commander of all Canadian forces, fixed upon keen, slender Guy Simonds two years ago as the coming man of the Canadian Army. This week Guy Simonds and his men, unopposed in the first days of the invasion, apparently were up against the remnants of the Germans' 15th Armored Division, which had retreated across Sicily and joined the Görings. The 29th (motorized) division, wiped...
...free will, without ourselves being directly assaulted. . . . We seek no profit, we want no territory or aggrandizement, we expect no reward and we will accept no compromise. . . . Against the triumphant might of Hitler, with the greedy Italian at his tail, we stood alone, with resources so slender that one shudders to enumerate them even...
Conrad Lanza was born (in New York) of a titled Italian family, according to Army friends. He looked the part in his early army years. Tall, slender, boasting both a mustache and a Vandyke beard, he had been commissioned a lieutenant when he was 20, was a captain at 25. At that time, in 1903, most captains were nearer 40. Lanza played the piano "beautifully," spoke five languages (including French, German, Italian), made a brilliant record as a staff officer, was decorated for his work as an artillery staffer in France during World...
...last week the Senate stood in recess. North Carolina's Joe Bailey and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar stayed on the floor. But most Southern members were conspicuously absent. Escorted by a committee of four, including Alabama's Lister Hill, a slender, smiling Negro entered the Senate chamber, mounted the rostrum. The members of his party were ushered to their seats. Then Vice President Henry Wallace introduced him: "Members of the Senate, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the President of Liberia...
Blue Suit, Grey Suit. Half a dozen klieg lights beat down on the chamber as the Senate and the Supreme Court straggled in. Suddenly, in the President's gallery over the Speaker's rostrum, a door opened and two figures appeared. The woman, taut-faced and slender, was dressed in a dark blue suit, tiny black velvet hat perched well back on her head. The man, in suit, shirt and tie of matching grey, was deeply tanned under his blond hair. Every eye in the chamber watched as they walked to their seats. Then, as one man, Congress...