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...Wendell Willkie in Moscow, pleading for a second front (see p. 27) and saying: "Next spring may be too late." But there was also hope in Willkie's voice, and there was still hope in Hitler's Europe. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean that hope sprang anew last week as men said, by their deeds: "Because men cannot wait too long, now is the time...
...Blacksmith Medunov works in one of Stalingrad's factories. Through letters he became acquainted with Surkov, a sniper on the south front. Between them sprang up a peculiar war friendship. Now the blacksmith is clipping stories about snipers from newspapers, and Sniper Surkov writes the blacksmith letters. Surkov has already exterminated 230 Fascists. Medunov has twice increased his normal output...
...greatest escapade of Daudet's career, a milestone in Third Republic high jinks, sprang from tragedy. In 1924 his 14-year-old son, Philippe, was found dead in a taxi. Police pronounced it suicide. Daudet screamed that the police had murdered the boy in retaliation for his father's Royalist disturbances. Even under France's liberal libel laws, Daudet was convicted of libeling both the police and taxi driver, sentenced to six months imprisonment. But the time of serving the sentence was politely left up to Daudet...
Hope & Merriment. Throughout the land the belief was strong now that the war was not only being won but would end soon. In Texas, naturally, the biggest-sized rumors sprang up: that Washington believed the war would be over in six months; that auto dealers had been told to hold on to their dead business for a few more months, because the war would be over then; that the real reason Washington had stopped expanding war plants was that the U.S. did not need any more to whip the Axis...
...Russian Baptists are Biblical fundamentalists; they sprang from German Protestantism. Unlike surviving fragments of the Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...