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Adolf Hitler's ex-bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich, strove mightily to please when questioned by Allied captors. Choice Dietrich characterizations of the old Hitler Gang...
...year of tragedy for Chiang Kaishek, China's perennial man of the year. The Japs cut his country in two. The recall of General Joseph W. Stilwell brought down on the Generalissimo's head the most searing criticism he had ever suffered from the U.S. But he strove to put new vigor into his regime and his war effort. Neither Chiang nor China was beaten...
...Hochih were still overextended; that although they might hold there indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...
...Thirty Years' War left religious Europeans in a state of mind much like that of religious people during World War II. There was widespread dissatisfaction with the established churches, widespread social unrest. Central Europe broke out into a rash of mystical, often non-sacramental sects whose members strove (usually under fierce persecution) to recover the spirit and the practices of the primitive Christian church. In the midst of arid orthodoxy, they sought catacombs of the spirit where direct communion with God might be achieved, usually with little or no intercession by clergy...
Within the harsh clamp of the Japanese blockade, Free China strove patiently and primitively to keep her economy breathing. A scene caught by the camera at a salt mine told part of the story...