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Into the bleak courtyard of the gloomy Jihlava fortress prison last week broke armed legionnaires of the green-shirted, Fascist, anti-Semitic Iron Guard. From the prison cells they dragged 64 Carolists, lined them up in front of a long trench from whose top they had just ripped a concrete slab. In the frosty dawn they opened fire, watched the bodies crumple to earth...
Theirs was a mission of revenge. From the trench they had removed the bodies of Iron Guard Founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 other Guardists, executed on the same spot just three days less than two years before. His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon...
...There is no doubt of its being a hard war. Two hundred lives are lost daily in the bombing raids and 300 people are injured. . . . There has never yet been a nation as much at war as England is today. The whole country is a huge trench...
...Washington correspondents next day sent Newshawk Murphy a trench helmet, a pair of football shoulder pads. *The "midstream" line, most effective of all Willkie cracks, became so familiar to correspondents that they wrote a song called Down...
...despair. . . . This is a world revolution, and when we people of the democracies see what we have lost in money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...