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...Oradour-sur-Glane was a French farm town the Nazi SS troops destroyed. They shot the men, placed a time bomb in the center of the church, locked some 800 women and children in the church to pray and wait for death. Only eight survived...
...tons just after liberation. Like plasma in a wounded body, the increase in coal is making itself felt in chemicals, metals, textiles and other basic industries. Railways now carry 65% of their prewar tonnage. The merchant marine (partly salvaged) is halfway back. A symbol is the rebuilding of Oradour-sur-Glane, the Lidice of France. Once again, amid the rubble marked simply "REMEMBER," the little town has its mairie, school, post office, shoemaker and bakery...
...Australians had arranged for the sur render of surviving Japanese troops in New Guinea, New Ireland, New Britain and the Solomons - a bag of approximately...
...Fascists only Dino Alfieri, once Italian propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin, shunned the Roman revels at the Palace Hotel. He preferred his own serious set at the swank Golf & Sport Hotel at Crans-sur-Sierre. For Alfieri was talking about forming a new political party, still dreaming about returning to Italy. Count Volpi shook his head...
...fast as possible. The enemy was certain to blow any bridge the Allies threatened to cross. A possible Allied countermove was a series of air borne operations launched at the eastern bridgeheads - but it seemed unlikely "that Allied paratroopers, in that thickly set tled territory, could achieve sufficient sur prise to stay the Nazi hand...