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Fighting Chinese. Chinese and U.S. troops worked well together. Cabled TIME Correspondent James Shepley from the Burmese front: "The crack 18th Japanese division made three frantic attempts to cross the Nambyu River. . . . As the Japs poured into the stream in the cold light of the jungle winter moon the Americans mowed them down with machine-gun and rifle fire. At daybreak the river was swollen with 300 to 500 Jap bodies. Merrill lost seven killed, 37 wounded...
...Rapido River valley on the wider front near Cassino the Allies forced their way foot by foot across the icy stream. Combat engineers rushed in to build bridges and clear mines out of roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
...this happened in Italy, which was a nation well within the stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...
...time, the dictator may compel the rich to disgorge enough in taxes to keep a stream of job-creating money flowing into public works. But the continued use of tax money to subsidize one segment of society, such as the unemployed or the workers, inflames those who have to pay the steadily mounting bill. At some point along the line the dictator must find an excuse to make the tax-and-subsidize economy palatable to everybody. This is done by discovering an outside enemy, which justifies the final splurge in military public works...
...staid (but never slow) New York Times last week bought a radio station. Sold for an undisclosed amount was Manhattan's WQXR (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), famed for its steady stream of good music. Aside from the obvious reason that a newspaper buys a radio station to disseminate news and keep its name before the public, one reason why the Times bought it probably had to do with a man named Hogan...